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.
Gnome. It’s made for touchscreens, but forced on desktop users.
Not even slightly true lol
It works very well on desktops, and is forced upon nobody.
When distros make it the default DE, that’s forcing it on them. No different then Microsoft bundling a specific browser. I also disagree that it works well on desktops. It lacks features, and tweaking it to resemble and behave like a more common desktop design is cumbersome.
It’s not forced on you. Nobody makes you use it.
“It’s default on some distros!!”
And? Who’s making you use them? Use one of the other distros that doesn’t use Gnome, or install a different DE after installation.
“It’s like Microsoft forcing Edge!!”
No it isn’t. For almost all PCs, Windows is installed by default with no other option.
If you’re using Gnome, it’s because you went out of your way to install it, or you went out of your way to purchase a Linux laptop and chose one with Gnome, which is far from the only option even in that space.
And you can disagree that it works on desktops all you like. All the people who use it on desktop would disagree with your opinion.
Just because something doesn’t work like Windows does, doesn’t mean it’s not for desktops.
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.
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
Gnome might be built for touch, but that doesn’t make it a great experience. Also KDE automatically rotates for me too.
I’m DE-agnostic. What do you mean by ‘stupid issues’? That’s not really specific.
off the top of my head,
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Performance of gnome isn’t great I often find it laggy on my lower end devices.
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Configuring gnome requires two separate GUI apps, and then you still may need cli.
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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.
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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.
KDE Plasma.
Gnome 100%. I personally like gnome for mouse and keyboard use but it’s really a no brainer for touch screen use.
GTK4 currently has a bug where touch inputs will sometimes randomly stop working for an app.
No doubt Gnome.
