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That would be a sweet replacement for an iPad. Is there a distro that gives a more tablet experience?
Anything that offers gnome should be touch ready 😇 I’d go for openSuse TW with gnome
Nice, thank you!
https://fedoraproject.org/spins/phosh/
Fedoras kernel doesnt run well on surface and to my knowledge phosh is not well maintained
Last phosh release was 3 days ago and it should work with any distro on wayland
It is a smaller project, but good to hear its actively developed!
Bummer. This seemed like a good solution
Try ublue silverblue surface images
Here are all the images
Thanks! I don't currently have a Surface. But this is opening up an interesting alternative to getting another iPad once my current one dies
I was not even able to test onscreen keyboards on KDE as there seems to be no way to force it. didnt try on GNOME. It may be able to work as an ipad replacement, but not always.