How to migrate to the hardware enablement stream? LX Aurora on Surface Pro4

[witecat]

Hello!
I tried to update Aurora on my Surface Pro 4

In System settings -> Aurora preferences (Spectacle) I am seeing the message:

The ASUS and Surface streams have been discontinued. Please migrate to the hardware enablement stream.

How do I migrate to the hardware enablement stream? Can't find info on how to do this, been seraching for an hour now.
The LX Aurora has worked wonderfully so far.

I read the post
[Deprecation Notice for Base Asus and Surface Images - General - Universal Blue](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/t/deprecation-notice-for-base-asus-and-surface-images/6589)
But there is no help there, can't afford to buy a new computer.

Will I be able to continue using some version of Universal Blue, or will I be forced to move to another distro?

Any advice? What do I do?
I'm not well versed in LX, but do know my way around a computer. Might say I'm a power user.

Thank you in advance

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[renner0e]

We stopped offering ISOs for those 1 year ago and stopped building the images 6 months ago. You are probably on a really old image. Send rpm-ostree status.

A community member continued to support these images, they were a maintaince burden to us because we don't have this exotic hardware and didn't know if people were actually using them.

I can't speak of the quality of these images but they claim to support your hardware.

https://www.kompassos.nl/

[witecat]

@renner0e, thank you for your reply
I understand that Surface Pro4 is now considered an exotic hardware, it is ancient.

Regarding KompassOS,
Will I have to re-install the whole OS, or can I just switch to their update channel?
Sorry if I'm asking stupid questions, I'm just out of my depth.
As requested:

❯ rpm-ostree status
State: idle
AutomaticUpdates: stage; rpm-ostreed-automatic.timer: inactive
Deployments:
● ostree-image-signed:docker://ghcr.io/ublue-os/aurora-surface:latest
                   Digest: sha256:48caea75c4a3fc3b96e2b3785839e124aef2ad606f2571870bc80efb2159da08
                  Version: latest-42.20251024 (2025-10-24T17:03:15Z)
          LayeredPackages: adb android-tools waydroid

  ostree-image-signed:docker://ghcr.io/ublue-os/aurora-surface:latest
                   Digest: sha256:48caea75c4a3fc3b96e2b3785839e124aef2ad606f2571870bc80efb2159da08
                  Version: latest-42.20251024 (2025-10-24T17:03:15Z)
          LayeredPackages: adb android-tools waydroid

[renner0e]

Regarding KompassOS,
Will I have to re-install the whole OS, or can I just switch to their update channel?

It's not a stupid question, you can rebase to their images, you don't need to reinstall. Although you will have to take a look at their documentation first.

I am stating this again, these images are not aurora, if you have issues after the rebase please report it to them.

[witecat]

@renner0e , thank you.
I will try KompassOS