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I'll be getting a new tablet PC in about a month. My previous one was a Fujitsu Q550, with PowerVR and thus terrible at anything Linux-related. Even so I had managed to run Plasma Active on it back in the day. But that was back in the day, and Plasma Active is dead now, the Q550 is terribly outdated, and the new tablet I'm getting is an HP x2 210, which is an amd64 Cherry Trail tablet with proper Intel graphics. Of course, it comes with Windows out of the box, and of course that's going out the window first thing.
The question is, what should I replace it with? While it's a common argument to say that some DE looks or feels like a tablet UI, it's very untrue for the most part. I remember trying to run Unity on the previous tablet, and it's completely unusable due to hover scrollbars; you can't hover on a tablet! So what would you all suggest I try?
I thought about it myself, and I'm thinking of two things right now. One, Plasma Mobile is the official successor for Plasma Active. That said, its last release on x86 is three years old, so using that is out of the question; however, the Git repository is a bit newer, with the latest developments having happened only about a year ago. So I could install Gentoo, and then install Plasma Mobile from git, which is easy enough to do with ebuilds. (I actually tried to do that on my old tablet, but Poulsbo can hardly run Wayland and it crashed in mysterious ways.)
The second idea is to run something on top of Mer, which is supposed to be made for that sort of thing. The best option here would seemingly be to run Jolla, since it actually runs on tablets and the Jolla tablet is x86 itself. Though apparently Mer doesn't have amd64 builds, only i486 ones. But I can live with that, I guess. Nemo Mobile would be another option.
Any other ideas? I'm thinking of testing several solutions and comparing them. Also documenting how I got one or another thing running for anyone interested. Maybe also write a review. Maybe I could even contribute a review or two to Michael if that's of interest.
The question is, what should I replace it with? While it's a common argument to say that some DE looks or feels like a tablet UI, it's very untrue for the most part. I remember trying to run Unity on the previous tablet, and it's completely unusable due to hover scrollbars; you can't hover on a tablet! So what would you all suggest I try?
I thought about it myself, and I'm thinking of two things right now. One, Plasma Mobile is the official successor for Plasma Active. That said, its last release on x86 is three years old, so using that is out of the question; however, the Git repository is a bit newer, with the latest developments having happened only about a year ago. So I could install Gentoo, and then install Plasma Mobile from git, which is easy enough to do with ebuilds. (I actually tried to do that on my old tablet, but Poulsbo can hardly run Wayland and it crashed in mysterious ways.)
The second idea is to run something on top of Mer, which is supposed to be made for that sort of thing. The best option here would seemingly be to run Jolla, since it actually runs on tablets and the Jolla tablet is x86 itself. Though apparently Mer doesn't have amd64 builds, only i486 ones. But I can live with that, I guess. Nemo Mobile would be another option.
Any other ideas? I'm thinking of testing several solutions and comparing them. Also documenting how I got one or another thing running for anyone interested. Maybe also write a review. Maybe I could even contribute a review or two to Michael if that's of interest.
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