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Finally have a fantastic setup for my surface to act as a tablet. the extension Touchup is doing some heavy lifting for usability. apps are: files, Riff, Librewolf, Voyager. Heres more screenshots.

Edit: i forgot to show some portrait screenshots! Ill grab some when i get a min!

some essential extensions.Touchup has been a gamechanger.

stock gnome files. It works well.

app library, checkout voyager!

librewolf using a CSS to make it easier to use on touchscreens. note the bigger navigation buttons.

instagram running in librewolf tab

spotify app Riff. it is fantastic and runs well on my surface

VOYAGER! the best lemmy experience on linux.

fastfetch i edited and copied from someone else on lemmy

i tried to post a video of my osk but it wouldnt work. here is the link to imgur.

gnome osk the osk was acting crazy while was recording. it doesnt act like that normally.

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[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 21 points 3 days ago (1 children)

What's the OS?

Also, good work finding the one place I think gnome fits

[–] HotsauceHurricane@lemmy.world 23 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Ultramarine Linux. It has a surface OS variant and its built on fedora. Its pretty good.

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Thanks for sharing .

You gotta show off the onscreen keyboard and a *fetch to make the show complete

Edit: and post to one of the unixporn Comms. !unixporn@lemmy.ml

[–] HotsauceHurricane@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

Oh man i forgot about Fetch!

[–] bleustenns@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Super cool goal they're achieving, installing this on my OG Surface Laptop. Thanks for making me aware of this.

[–] HotsauceHurricane@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

You can also use most any distro you want using Linux-surface kernel

[–] _aj@piefed.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

st any distro you w

Ok you've inspired me to get off my butt and set this up on my old S Laptop. Looks like it is in the supported list.

Woooooo! YEAR OF THE LINUX TABLET!