Recommendations for mobile Linux desktop environments that run well on an x86 tablet? (lemmy.ml)

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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?

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[-] flipflop97@feddit.nl 2 points 1 week ago

You could also try the experimental GNOME Mobile or phosh, but those seem mostly aimed at phones instead of tablets.

[-] agx@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Phosh is used quiet a bit on tablets. E.g. Purism ships it e.g. for their Librem 11 and also Juno uses it. We have a phosh-tablet for that use case in Debian.

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