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Cake day: August 9th, 2023

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  • I use ThinkPad X1 yoga with Fedora 40 (Gnome)

    1. Enable fractional scaling and install Display scale switcher gnome extension - makes it easier to increase scaling when in tablet mode for easier touch input.
    2. logging in on a touchscreen can be a pain, in particular entering the password with on-screen keyboard. Special characters and numbers are not shown by default. On windows you have the option to use pin instead with a numeric keyboard. If you have a fingerprint reader compatible with linux that might work for login (mine doesn’t).
    3. Linux is very terminal-oriented, but Gnome terminal is unusable on a tochscreen. never mind typing commands - try scrolling long outputs - you can’t scroll with touchscreen, it will just start selecting text (i dont remember how this works in Windows)
    4. Google chrome supports gestures, so you can swipe left/right on the page to navigate back/forward. This does not with Firefox. Chrome also has a more touchscreen-friendly UI you can enable in chrome://flags/#top-chrome-touch-ui (Touch UI layout) although I haven’t noticed a significant difference.
    • while you’re messing with google flags you may want to change Preferred Ozone platform to Wayland - this fixed blurry scaling for me









  • Gnome is nice and minimalist. It’d be nice tto have built in extension by default to keep the dock always visible without having to activate it in top left corner (very unergonomic considering that the dock is at the bottom). It’s unacceptable that you have to install a plugin to keep it on, as a beginner user I didn’t even know to install extension manager and what extension to install.

    KDE on the other hand is too busy and complicated for new users.