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Good distro for touch screen / pen support?
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I've used Plasma via Fedora Kinoite and it works great. Flipping the 2in1 screen over disables the keyboard automatically and the touchscreen just works fine. Recently Plasma made nice changes to their on screen keyboard. Also, pressure sensitive pens worked perfectly as long as the note taking program utilized that function.
Awesome, thanks for the info. what device have you been using?
It's a Dell Inspiron 2 in 1. Quite nice actually. All metal, fingerprint reader works, 16:10, and other small things that add up to it being overall an enjoyable laptop
How accurate is the pen? I've read that a lot of devices that use an active pen like MPP based styluses have wobbly lines, even if you literally use a physical ruler.