Been wanting to put Linux on my Surface Pro 7, but when i tried it with Ubuntu, it didn’t work as well as I’d like. I used the Surface driver kernel, but Ubuntu wasn’t really good with touch. It couldn’t give a pop up keyboard (only showed up when logging into my account, but never beyond that). Sometimes it wouldn’t register touch at all. That and other little things that made it not ideal for touch screens. So i was wondering, are there any good distros that would work well in tablet only mode on my Surface Pro?
This is mostly down to desktop environment rather than distro, but I had the same experience as you with gnome on Ubuntu, and switching to fedora it was a lot better. Still some problems with the on-screen keyboard but it at least works. I guess having a more up-to-date version of gnome helps, or ubuntu’s additions to gnome mess with it.
I haven’t tried KDE but I’ve heard it’s been getting better touch support, so it might be worth trying out too.
KDE isn’t better with touch than Gnome. Maybe Plasma 6 will change that when it comes out next year, or maybe not.
As a KDE fanboy I will agree, I installed regular Ubuntu on an old Surface tablet and the touch interface is better than most Android tablets I’ve used
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