I was daily driving Pop_OS before my System76 finally gave it up. I mostly enjoyed the experience, but when my laptop gave it up, I had to run to a big box store and grab a replacement asap. I’m now riding an HP envy touch screen fliptop and (:puke:) windows 11.

I’ve been hesitant to throw linux onto this puppy because frankly, having never had a touch/ flip screen before, I’m really digging it. Has anyone here run linux on a touch screeen? Issues? A specific release I should consider? Any other considerations?

  • arthurpizza@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 years ago

    I have a Thinkpad with a touch screen running on Gnome and it’s nice but I find I only really use it when scrolling on a website.

    A lot of things work like pinch to zoom too.

  • Artemis@lemmy.ml
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    2 years ago

    I have an HP Envy and it has honestly been a dream with any distro I throw at it. I find KDE to have better touch gesture support than Gnome, but I have been running Gnome for a while now and it hasn’t bothered me at all.

  • UnfortunateShort@lemmy.world
    1·
    2 years ago

    Plasma and GNOME support it, although in all honesty UI wise Windows might win for touch. They’ve tried very hard since Win8 after all.

  • KelsonV@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 years ago

    KDE Plasma handles the touch screen fine on my PineTab2.

    It works in LxQt too, but only in portrait mode (which is the default for this device). I keep meaning to look up how to tell it to rotate the touch coordinates along with the display, and I keep not getting around to it.

    But the main issue I’ve run into is that most GUI apps for Linux are…let’s just say they’re not designed with touch input in mind.

  • jollyrogue@lemmy.ml
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    2 years ago

    The touchscreen on my Thinkpad P1 gen4 with Fedora works well.

    I don’t particularly use it, but it worked out of the box when I was testing it after I got it.