I genuinely love to see this. You're willing to actually take comments seriously and consider them, test them out, verify them yourself, and then change your conclusions on that basis without a second thought, and we all get to benefit from all of your work as you publish it.

You're a beacon of good will in a community unfairly dominated by toxic gatekeeping. 💙

Thank you for making this follow-up video and included Fedora Plasma Mobile. While not many people seem to be interested in Linux tablets at the moment, I was one of the few that watched both videos.

I do have a Lenovo 2-in1 tablet running Auora, although if they ever do provide Plasma Mobile images, I would rebase to that.

#ublueaurora

Thanks for the follow up video!

I use Phosh on my StarLite V and the OSK is appropriately sized for the width of the screen in portrait mode. The scaling of OSK seems to be based on the scaling of the screen and I don't think it likes scales except 100%, 200% etc. It's a little funky but way more usable than what you experienced!

huge props for following up on this, and that was such a quick turnaround!

It's kind of frustrating to see how broken some things can be on Ubuntu, especially when they have such a huge user base. GNOME and everyone working on the whole stack work so hard to make everything work well, and then a ton of users get a broken experience thanks to extensions and downstream configuration changes. 🫠

just a nitpick: phosh is not: "some kind of fork of gnome shell."
Its a wayland and gtk shell that does use gnome technologies, sure. but was built from ground up. It does not have code in common with gnome shell itself.

Also there is another keyboard that can used with phosh that is better for tablets.

phosh.mobi/posts/phosh-osk-int…

Phosh's On Screen Keyboard Interface

One of the central pieces on small screens without physical keyboards it the on screen keyboard (OSK). Ever so often people want to experiment with alternative keyboards to e.g.

^{Guido Günther (Phosh)}

@alatiera @cassidy So many people told me I shouldn’t have used Ubuntu that I really didn’t have a choice 😁

I guess FOSS’s various freedoms are both a blessing and a curse: just because you can do a lot doesn’t mean you should!

@alatiera @cassidy I just wanted to say thanks for doing these videos! I've been playing with Linux on my tablet for a few months now and came to basically the same conclusions - even made the same assumptions about Ubuntu and was disappointed.

I'm hoping your videos shine some light on how inconsistent the entire experience of touch on linux can still be, and encourage more people to submit bug reports.

Best experience has been KDE Desktop, and it just keeps getting better!

Got around to watching this.

Re: Plasma mobile buttons & gestures interfering: I have them up on the right side of my tablet display where there is no issue. I've had it like that for years, so I can't say for sure, but it's fairly likely that I did move them there to avoid the interference you experienced.

What an odd default configuration.