I was daily driving Pop_OS before my System76 finally gave it up. I mostly enjoyed the experience, but when my laptop gave it up, I had to run to a big box store and grab a replacement asap. I’m now riding an HP envy touch screen fliptop and (:puke:) windows 11.
I’ve been hesitant to throw linux onto this puppy because frankly, having never had a touch/ flip screen before, I’m really digging it. Has anyone here run linux on a touch screeen? Issues? A specific release I should consider? Any other considerations?
The easiest way to find out is to boot up a live image and test on your hardware.
It’s been a lot of years that we’ve been able to run an OS without installing it. Some are even intended to be run that way. There’s literally no reason at all to be “hesitant” about firing up a live environment from usb to find out how it runs.
I’d recommend using Fedora Workstation, it was a great experience back when I myself had an HP ENVY “fliptop”. Anything with GNOME as its desktop environment should be perfect.
How was the screen rotation? I am mostly using mine flipped with a second monitor.
Also, what year was the HP ENVY?
How was the screen rotation? I am mostly using mine flipped with a second monitor.
Automatic screen rotation wasn’t exactly smooth, but it did work, and I didn’t experience any major issues because of it. I’d imagine it’s better now.
Also, what year was the HP ENVY?
Somewhere around 2018 I think, it was a while ago. But you can test in the live environment to see if the hardware support is still as good as it was.
Why not just test it from a bootable stick? My one one experience with a touchscreen was very positive (Plasma on Manjaro).
I have a touchscreen laptop, and GNOME is 100% the most polished desktop I tried on it. IMO they have the best touchscreen implementation I’ve ever seen (even better than windows): the mouse pointer is separate from the touchscreen “pointer”. So if you tap the display somewhere, your mouse won’t go there.
