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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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What's your preferred DE? (lemdro.id)

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I’m currently testing Fedora KDE on a VM (windows host) before eventually switching over to Linux completely.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh I see. But I thought such gestures were available a long time ago, I remember apps like Fusuma, and there was talk of adding them to libinput so that every DE could let the user assign actions to gestures.

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

Yeah, this is now using the libinput gestures. It's mainly exciting, because it's available out-of-the-box, even for non-techies and lazy people (me).

With general technological advances and I believe Windows having similar gestures, it's now also rarely the case that touchpad hardware doesn't support multi-touch input...