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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).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

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Surface Laptop 3 running Kubuntu, such an improvement over what it was "designed" for. (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Is there a tablet mode?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Yup. I think I needed to manually install the touch keyboard. But once installed, it works as expected. Touch the screen or remove the physical keyboard, and touch mode gets activated. Whenever touching a text field, the soft keyboard pops out. It's massive, though (well, about the same size as the one for Windows).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Nice!

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

Which one did you choose? The ones I found feeled pretty clunky to use...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Seems the one I use is Maliit. It's on the chunky side, but for the few times I type without the real keyboard, it does the job just fine I guess.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I hope you mean touchpad by touch, it has nothing to do with desktops, it relates xinput libinput synaptics sw common for X and wayland, window managers. If it works it does so before desktop layer is drawn, in some cases it can work on console as well with the right sw.

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