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by deng 907 days ago
Can anyone report how well this would work on a pure touch device (tablet)? I have a Thinkpad X1 Tablet (gen3) and am still looking for the best Linux distribution to work with it as a plain tablet, without the keyboard attached. Plain Fedora has some very annoying bugs with the on-screen keyboard. Installing the Phosh extension fixed most of these, but this introduces other annoying things that make it tedious to use. Also, the disk encryption still requires to attach a keyboard at boot, since Grub does not feature an on-screen keyboard, so I'm wondering how this was solved here.
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Not sure if you are to do any super sensitive work on the tablet or not.

But a home folder encryption rather than full disk might solve the touch input problem.

We're working on porting unl0kr from postmarketOS to Fedora to allow for LUKS on the Steam Deck without an external keyboard, that should also work well for a tablet use case once it's done.