

Very happy for you! Seconded to just banking it. If it was 50k that would be different. Throw half in a CD and the other just plan out ongoing expenses. Make sure backups are working, maybe use a bit of the cash to try recovering from a backup just in case.
If your cost is 250 a month, then in reality you only have 2 years of runway there, if you don’t grow. Good intention and I respect that, but I think keeping beehaw going long term is better than anything else you would do with the money
Have you seen the surface-linux project on GitHub? They’ve been maintaining a kernel for it. Idk if it’ll work with your distro but I’d start there