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?

  • db2@sopuli.xyz
    241·
    1 year ago

    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.

  • kent_eh@lemmy.caEnglish
    22·
    1 year ago

    The easiest way to find out is to boot up a live image and test on your hardware.

  • f00f/eris@startrek.websiteEnglish
    8·
    1 year ago

    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.

      • f00f/eris@startrek.websiteEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        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.

  • samuel_mahler@feddit.de
    7·
    1 year ago

    Why not just test it from a bootable stick? My one one experience with a touchscreen was very positive (Plasma on Manjaro).

  • Alex@discuss.online
    6·
    1 year ago

    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.

  • arthurpizza@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    I have a Thinkpad with a touch screen running on Gnome and it’s nice but I find I only really use it when scrolling on a website.

    A lot of things work like pinch to zoom too.

  • Justin@apollo.townEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    Yes. Dell 7391 2in1, works great. I have Fedora KDE on it and I flip it into tablet mode and use it on the couch.

  • astraeus@programming.dev
    3·
    1 year ago

    I run a Lenovo X1 Yoga on PopOS and the overall experience has been great. Touch screen works well and the only complaint I can make is that the on-screen keyboard could be a little easier to deal with but it isn’t bad at all.

  • d3Xt3r@lemmy.nzM
    2·
    1 year ago

    I had the Envy’s cousin, the HP Elite DragonFly (also a touch/flip), and it worked great under Linux (Arch + Gnome). All gestures worked out of the box and was pretty smooth too. HP touchscreens are generally pretty standardized so I reckon your Envy should work fine too. Just use whatever distro you’re comfortable with, most distros should work fine.

  • Alex@discuss.online
    2·
    1 year ago

    This doesn’t answer your question, but Pop!_OS isn’t abandoned. They’re just updating it only based on Ubuntu LTS versions, because they’re working on a new desktop.

  • codeboy@lemmy.the-codeboy.comEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    I’ve been using linux as a daily driver on my convertible for almost two years now. I started with using Manjaro and Gnome which worked really well, I especially liked the gesture support, but I heard kde also has good support for that. I switched to a tiling WM a couple months ago because I don’t use my touchscreen that much (still works great with it though). I suggest going with any distro you like and using Gnome. All in all I’d say touch support is great. The only issue I ever had was when I used a second monitor the touchscreen wouldn’t get mapped to the internal one automatically, but that was easy to fix

  • UnfortunateShort@lemmy.world
    2·
    1 year ago

    Plasma and GNOME support it, although in all honesty UI wise Windows might win for touch. They’ve tried very hard since Win8 after all.

  • 77slevin@sopuli.xyz
    1·
    1 year ago

    I run Linux Mint Cinnamon, latest version, on a GPD Pocket 2 with absolutely no issues. The touch screen, although it is a small one, works perfectly.

  • donnachaidh@lemmy.dcmrobertson.com
    1·
    1 year ago

    It works great for me on Arch with Hyprland, even though that really isn’t designed with touch in mind. I think there are some programs that provide touch gestures generically (egg something comes to mind?), but I’ve never needed them. I’m sure if you go with Gnome or something it would work great, so long as the touchscreen is recognised properly (I’ve never had issues, but that doesn’t say much about if you would). I’d just get a live USB with whatever you would install, and see if it physically works. If it does, I’m sure there’s a DE/WM that fits the workflow you want.