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Linux on a Touchscreen PC: use KDE, not GNOME! (on the Tuxedo Infinity Flex 14) (peertube.wtf)

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Gnome has a small brother Phosh, which has a bit better touch support, but it was developed for phones. I remember played with that on an x86 tablet years ago and it worked a bit better than Gnome, I don't know how its development going on nowadays.

Gnome got some funding from German Ministry of Education Prototype fund for its mobile ux in 2022, so it's a bit unexpected that it's still in this state: https://logs.gnome.org/shell-dev/2022/09/09/gnome-shell-on-mobile-an-update/

I know mobile and general touch ux is not the same but they are closely related.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Phosh has come a long way under the development that pinephone and librem phones sparked. But so has Plasma Mobile. I don't think either of them are great for larger formats yet, they are built more for the phone format. But they are both leaps and bounds ahead of even a few years ago.

[–] Jumuta 2 points 3 days ago

as much as I like plasma mobile and want it to succeed it's pretty janky in its current state imo

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Phosh kicks ass