I have an unused Windows tablet from 2021 running some Core M processor or other that I want to put Linux on and start using again. It doesn’t have a keyboard so I would have to actually use it as a tablet and not a laptop. Is there a distro built around one of the mobile desktop environments that also runs well on x86? (Last time I tried Linux mobile it was pretty much only for ARM and I never got it to work well on even an x86 virtual machine.) Or is regular GNOME deskrop still my best bet for a tablet?

  • Jiří Král@discuss.tchncs.de
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    10 days ago

    I don’t recommend Fedora as a distro for this as they do not have the Maliit keyboard in the repos and you will have to build it yourself.

    Last time I tryed Fedora KDE few months back it had a Maliit keyboard, but I was using the desktop version of the shell.

    • KrapKake@lemmy.world
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      10 days ago

      Now that I think about it I think you are right. I think I was thinking about the word prediction for the keyboard they didn’t have.