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Best DE for touch screens but also normal use (self.linux)

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

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Hi!

I have an HP 360 which has a touch screen and I never found a DE that is great for both regular input and touch input.

Kde is great for regular stuff but meh with touch, gnome is the other way around.

I was thinking of trying out hyperland but didn't look into it's touch compitability.

Any suggestions?

I use arch btw.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I would say plasma, Gnome has too many stupid issues for it to be a real contender IMO. I constantly found gnome to be laggy on my chuwi, even to the point that it would occasionally drop inputs.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

GNOME is built for touch. if I rotate my HP laptop 90 degrees sideways, GNOME automatically rotates the screen to suit. Its why latest gnome has so many multifinger touch gestures for interacting with screen

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Gnome might be built for touch, but that doesn't make it a great experience. Also KDE automatically rotates for me too.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

I found the opposite, KDE felt Janky, GNOME is a cohesive experience built specific for touch gestures, tablet use etc

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'm DE-agnostic. What do you mean by 'stupid issues'? That's not really specific.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

off the top of my head,

Performance of gnome isn't great I often find it laggy on my lower end devices.
Configuring gnome requires two separate GUI apps, and then you still may need cli.
Gnome apps like nautilus, the file browser are also absurdly slow, sometimes taking more then 4 seconds for me (and others see here https://medium.com/@fulalas/gnome-mess-is-not-an-accident-4e301032670c) to load thumbnails.
I found gestures to be inconsistent on my Chuwi hi10x too. They often times wouldn't work and I would need to try multiple times.

I did have other issues, but I didn't exactly log them.