Hello, everybody. I have a Microsoft Surface Pro 3 that I’d like to install some Linux distro on to use as an eBook reader. Does anybody have any experience or recommendations for a distro that’s touchscreen-friendly? Thanks in advance!

Edit: I’m using Linux Mint on my main PC. I like it, but haven’t tried it on the Surface yet.

  • @[email protected]
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    29 days ago

    Just this weekend I took an old Gen 1 Surface Go and put the latest Fedora on it and it’s amazing, very intuitive for touch screens. Tried Mint before and it gave me enough issues that I didn’t use that Tablet at all for almost a year.

    Edit to clarify, I run Mint on my desktop and love it, just didn’t really work well on my old Surface Go.

  • @[email protected]
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    230 days ago

    While you wait for responses, there is a lot of coverage on this already. Just search:

    surface pro 3 linux

  • @[email protected]
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    330 days ago

    Anything running the Gnome desktop will work fine.

    I also had a Surface Pro 3 running Debian + Gnome. I Gifted it to my father for casual web browsing and It’s working great for him.

    • hendrik
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      330 days ago

      I’ve been using the Gnome desktop as well on my Yoga convertible. Has some Android vibes with the menus and the app picker etc. And it works well since Firefox doesn’t need any patches for scrolling anymore.

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    225 days ago

    Just wanted to chime in and say I personally found Gnome thoroughly underwhelming for a touch screen. Like you’d think it’s a good fit but it’s just janky in practice. I’ve had much better success with KDE. In the Plasma 6.4.0 changelog they specifically mentioned that they have touch based devices in mind. I feel like with Gnome it’s more of an afterthought.