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Lightweight touch-capable distro (feddit.de)

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I recently was able to acquire an older Dell Venue 11 Pro 7130 with an Intel i3-4030Y and 4GB of RAM.

I installed Fedora GNOME spin thinking GNOME might be the right DE for touch interfaces. Sadly it behaves sluggishly and the touch capabilities are lacking. Nautilus for example can't deal with long clicks to simulate right clicks, making file browsing a chore since I need to plug in a mouse and keyboard.

Does anyone have any experience with older convertibles? What distro do you use to make use of the touch interface while keeping a snappy system?

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

it's a lackluster experience which ever way you turn. plasma has a better touch experience and consistency but its keyboard (maliit was it?) is horrible. GNOME's keyboard is better but still crap.

everything feels like a proof-of-concept, something that was shipped in this sorta-works state and left. if you've ever used an android tablet, this is a long, long way off.

GNOME terrorized us for a decade with those comically gigantic UI elements because it's supposedly touch friendly but the moment you start touching them it feels like utter crap.

try running android x86 on it, I had some good experiences with bliss OS. old kernels there, so hardware support is hit n miss.

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

Bliss looks really promising, thanks.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Bliss is pretty old LineageOS based though. Would be great to have GrapheneOS or just DivestOS on x86

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

next stop, fydeOS. good luck!