Steve wrote:
On 11/11/2012 09:53 AM, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> I see a lot of vendors are putting out hybrid tablet-laptops with a touch
> screen which flips, and traditional keyboard, which can be used in a number of
> ways, including as a tablet. Has anyone gotten experience with using Fedora on
> such a machine, and if so how (if at all) was the touch feature supported?
I am running Fedora 17 on a Dell Duo that is a couple years old.
It shipped with Windows and it sucked. I installed Fedora (15?) on it and it
came to life. Its a really nice machine with it.
As far as the touch functionality, I had to install drivers manually back then,
but I believe that the kernel now ships with them natively. Touch just works in
F17, but it ceases to work if I put my Duo to sleep and then resume. Whether
it works on your device depends on what hardware it has.
I don't know a whole lot about touch functionality in Fedora 17. I haven't
played around with it much. The problem with a touchscreen device is that as
soon as you want to do real work, it is soooo slow compared to a keyboard. So
what I do is use touch for general browsing and such, but as soon as I want to
get serious about something I find myself flipping the keyboard open and typing
and using the mouse.
> I've seen reasonably nice units from Dell and Lenovo, but no nice salespeople
> who would let me boot them from thumb drive.
If you are referring to the new Dell Duo, I think that is one sweet machine.
I'd go for it. If I didn't have an Android tablet, I'd go for the new Duo
myself.
Have an Android tablet, and I do like it, some things are very nice with touch,
while as you note, typing much or anything needing careful pointer control is
poor. Wish I could run Android apps on Fedora with touch, for some things it's
outstanding.
If you are looking for advanced tablet functionality, check out the
new Plasma
Active release. Rex put a build in the testing repository. I haven't had a
chance to test it yet.
Sounds interesting, I would want to see how well it works before I bought the
hardware, but that would be the right set of solutions for me.
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