Your best bet may be to boot from usb and see for yourself how well your laptop is suppored out of the box.
I have a thinkpad yoga, and when using wayland (Fedora 40 Gnome), the stylus is unusable - it stops working after few seconds of drawing and I have to reopen the app. In X it works fine.
That idea of booting from a USB is golden.
I not sure if this helps you at all but I use Pop!_OS on a Thinkpad with touchscreen. On it I do A LOT of PDF work, including forms and signatures. I have had no problems at all in four years of it being my main system.
Note: I do not use pressure sensitive stylus inputs like the Wacom or iPads use.
I agree with this from using Pop on a Surface Pro 8, much more casual usage though: mainly web browsing, watching shows, light gaming and scrolling through PDFs/CBR files. Just using a cheap/non pressure sensitive stylus too
This is about COSMIC Epoch, not their current GNOME.
GNOME or KDE ar far more advanced, while COSMIC Epoch may be cool and clean at the core, it still has like 5 years or more to be equal
Yeah, OP should probably add "Rust-based" or specific Epoch to avoid confusion.
like 5 years or more
They're really good & extremely dedicated devs with lots of experience working on it, so I think that's a little bit of an underestimation, I think it's within the possibly of getting there within 5 years, maybe not exactly 1:1 ofc. However, they've really put in a lot of thought into base of the project, and in my experience having a strong well designed base can propell future development forward much faster than initial estimates. Even now, they've been smashing mile stones much faster than expected and if they keep their current trajectory at a steady rate I believe it's possible the meet some level of parody within a 5 year goal. Ofc, anything can happen so only time will tell. Also, considering the fact that they're not having to deal with the X11 tech debt...
Yes I assume the same. We just need a lot of people willing to use Rust.
GTK and QML are way way easier I think.
It will be usable but not great. Gnome on wayland will be much better.
This.
Their core design is awesome, but they are basically rebuilding a strange modified GNOME from the ground up in pure Rust.
Some GNOME components are reused, like gvfs, but the compositor and more are all self written.
It may have no touch support at all.
Try KDE Plasma, it is really awesome.
KDE isn't as good on touch screens. Gnome is designed to be convergent and the UI has finger friendly buttons. Pop OS cosmic gnome (the desktop that currently ships with pop) is gnome based but it on X so touch input devices will be problematic
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