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What's your experience with a touchscreen laptop on your distro? (lemmy.world)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hello everyone!

I'm finally tired enough of the invasive and anti-consumer practices of Windows to convert over. I'm going to start with my laptop, but I'm concerned about compatibility for 2-in-1 convertible touchscreens.

A distro that's sufficient for both computers would be ideal for consistency's and simplicity's sake.

2-in-1 convertible touchscreen laptop. Can be folded into a "tablet" mode. Used for web browsing and simple games
Main workstation for gaming, programming, etc. NVIDIA GPU (no touchscreen)

Most anecdotes say touchscreen support is hit or miss, and the On Screen Keyboard / Auto-rotate support is an additional challenge. MINT with cinnamon seems to be the best contender at the moment due to its compatibly with most games and the touchscreen support seems to be there.

But, I'd love some fresh perspectives as most sources were ~a year old. Thanks for your time!

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

A distro with the Gnome desktop is where I would start. It has the best touch gestures and on screen keyboard. Gnome's keyboard still could use some work however, and I would recommend you install "improved osk" if you intend to use it a lot. Cinnamon will work fine but it's not as fancy...at least since I have last used it. (Its been a few years.)

I used to have some 2 in 1 HP x360 that I initially had Linux Mint on and it did work well. But then I tried PopOS out on it and I had to switch it over to that because of the touch screen gestures and an on screen keyboard that would automatically pop up when you activated a text field. I wouldn't recommend PopOS right now if you want the latest and greatest Gnome updates, as it is a bit out of date since they are focusing on creating their own desktop. It's still a solid choice though.