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Best DE for touch screens but also normal use (lemmy.world)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hi!

I have an HP 360 which has a touch screen and I never found a DE that is great for both regular input and touch input.

Kde is great for regular stuff but meh with touch, gnome is the other way around.

I was thinking of trying out hyperland but didn't look into it's touch compitability.

Any suggestions?

I use arch btw.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Currently most likely GNOME, maybe KDE 6 in a month.

Gestures feel nice on Hyprland, but to my knowledge there's only a workspace swipe gesture by default. Also note that it's not a DE.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It's not?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

It's a tiling window manager, like i3 or bspwm.

You have to pick out all the software (terminal, filemanager, text editor, whatever else a DE provides idk, but also things like a panel or launcher) yourself. Easy choices for that are KDE software (Konsole, Dolphin, Kate, etc), waybar, and rofi-wayland.

It also doesn't have a settings application (unless you use the very WIP and pretty outdated hyprset), all the configuration is in a file.