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Re:I Finally Found a Solid Debian Tablet: The Surface Go 2 by csdvrx on Saturday June 25, 2022 @02:08PM (#31877382)
> The biggest difficulty with a standard desktop GNU+Linux on a tablet is that most distributions are not optimized for easy tablet use - KDE Neon User Edition e.g. does not come with a virtual keyboard preinstalled.

Ubuntu 22 on a Lenovo X1 Fold gave me the OSK without installing anything - though the touchscreen was not supported by default, the driver is under work cf https://github.com/quo/ithc-linux

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Re:I Finally Found a Solid Debian Tablet: The Surface Go 2 by linmob on Saturday June 25, 2022 @04:36PM (#31878522)
Some distros do, and GNOME has been good to me too on many distributions with delivering a working virtual keyboard OOTB. KDE Neon, however, which I wanted to try after reading that KDE Plasma 5.25 has better tablet support, comes without a virtual keyboard (and AFAIK does not come with an easy option to install one, you need to know that it you have to install maliit-keyboard).
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