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I need help picking a lightweight touch friendly DE (pawb.social)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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My cousin gave an old acer switch that she wasn´t using, its extremely underpowered with 2gb of ram, an old atom and 32 gigs of storage. I tried ubuntu with gnome because thats what i use on my main laptop and while it has amazing touchscreen support it barely runs. I then decided to try lxqt and it runs great but the touch support is really bad. Does anyone know a DE with a good balance between performance and usability? xfce doesnt really seem to have good touch support either and tbh i really dislike it.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Can confirm from personal experience, KDE Plasma is arguably the best choice.

I used it on a tiny Surface Go without issue, and I use it with a touch pen display.

You can easily rearrange the UI so things are positioned where your hands are.

Also, it's the only setup I found where I could rely on virtual keyboards alone, after installing OnBoard.

I also tried Gnome and PopOS, and Plasma came out on top.