Dope Tech Episode 2

<<@walterhynson2898 says : Thanks alot as win 10 is dead .>> <<@PuchoWebSolutions says : Hello from New York City! Does Linux provide better application performance compared to Windows? Is there a compelling reason to keep Windows OS and use dual boot, why did you choose this startup method? Thank you for your informative video.>> <<@ForViewingOnly says : Very good Chris. I enjoyed this video 3 years ago when I was a Windows 10 user, and enjoyed it even more today as an excited Linux newbie!>> <<@Multivision-bruh says : there's a distro for that.>> <<@alanstevens742 says : Wondering if the Linux on tablet landscape has changed in the last three years. My recent tests with a couple of distros still had problems with the on screen keyboard as well as auto rotate issues.>> <<@russb257 says : Picked up a Surface Pro 2 with keyboard, stylus and AC adapter the other day for $25,works and looks like new. Instead of dual booting Windows and Mint I wiped the Win10 and installed Mint 22.2 and put VirtualBox 7.0.26 on (after disabling KVM) and installed Windows 10 21H2 IoT Enterprise LTSC as a VM as I rarely use Windows except for a Brother Scan N Cut my wife has that only has software for Win and Mac. Battery is like new as well and holds a full charge for 4 hours easy.Lucked out and got the 512GB mSata with 8gb RAM version that the person I bought it from had paid almost $1700 USD for it 11 yrs ago.>> <<@ChrisT-O says : Very intteresting video, thank you for that. I just installed Ubuntu on an old Dell Venue Pro 5056 Tablet, with a very slow Intel Atom chip and 4 GB Ram. It got Win 10 and was much too slow for it, when it made updates it took one day and you can` t do anything else on it. The battery is not the best anymore, so it was empty very fast. I don`like to throw it away, so I decided to try touchscreen friendly Linux. First I took Mint, I have it on all my computers, but mint was difficult to handle, the screen of the Dell has only 10 inch. So I need something with bigger buttons, I took Fedora. I very much liked it, but a lot of things didn`t worked, like sound, bluetooth sound and the battery status. I unfortunatly found out, that there are no Linux drivers offered from Dell for this device. It is made for Windows and has only drivers for that. But I tried several other Linux distros and Ubuntu works best on this tablet. Still the onboard sound is not working and the battery status still is not avaiable, but bluetooth sound works with it and the touchsreen works much better as the other Linux distros. I put the tablet in an old usb typing case and use a blutooth speaker and now I have a still very useable little notebook. The battery last much longer with Ubuntu and it`running fast now. I just use it now for writing this comment.>> <<@smievil says : maybe simply connecting a keyboard and mouse to it would be fine, like a more portable pc. tablet form factor is interesting. it's like a laptop without a mediocre keyboard so you can pick one yourself>> <<@J-DJ says : My old Chuwi Hi13 was slow with win8 and even slower with win10, has got the linux convert over the last week with Linux Mint tried in all 3 variations Cinnamon, Xfce and Mate..........my experience is that Mate + Onboard OSK is the best at the moment, but in no way as smooth as android or iPad. But the 2000x3000 px display on the Chuwi Hi13 is very good for watching youtube, movie streaming etc . Lets see if it can do 5 more years with Linux as OS>> <<@andreaspigler2521 says : I currently have installed Manjaro Cinnamon on my HP EliteBook x360 convertible laptop. What I don't like is that scrolling through the apps in the default Cinnamon app launcher with fingers is nearly impossible. The launcher is always reordering the entries instead, with no option to turn that off. There is also the issue with right and double clicks. They are just not implemented for touch screens, and you have to do some sort of trick, e.g. via the Onboard keyboard, to perform them. Finally, automatic screen rotation is a problem.>> <<@wizzardrincewind9458 says : 👍🖖>> <<@batosato says : Hi. Nice tutorial. I have a window powered Chinese tablet but after updating the windows my touchscreen doesnt work properly. It has an offset. Does anyone know how to fix it? Thanks>> <<@Beard-CatT says : Great videos even after 2 years still useful especially with overstock of older atom tablets being thrown out now a days that are still capable but windows drivers are lacking.>> <<@ig_Stress says : There's any working option to my dell venue 8?>> <<@yerachmielb1 says : Is there a way to set any of the virtual keyboards to automatically open - or maybe only become available - when flipping a laptop into tablet mode? (What I mean is that when I flip the laptop into tablet mode, I want the keyboard icon to automatically become visible in the panel/taskbar, then it can act like an actual tablet/smartphone keyboard?)>> <<@WeTube-mf1it says : This might be a hard spot to find an answer, but has anyone gotten Onboard working well with Manjaro?>> <<@Ctrl_Del_0 says : This video is as relevant today as it was 2 years ago. I also prefer onboard as the on screen keyboard. However, what i have found with Mint 22, is that when one uses the standard on screen keyboard, one can also log in with an on screen keyboard. When one changes that to onboard, that does not work anymore. I now remember that Onboard should have a setting for that but I would have to check.>> <<@rontarrant says : @ExplainingComputers: I'd be very interested in hearing about your experiences with two-finger zooming (as in: with two fingers on screen, spread them apart to zoom in, bring them together to zoom out).>> <<@TheDentonB says : Void Linux is a good option for x86 tablets, like the dell venue 8 pro. I have most drivers working, except for bluetooth and screen brightness. Nice video!>> <<@manos.tz_ says : was it the xcfe verion of mint?>> <<@alankingvideo says : Thanks, have tried about 7 distros, my preference is Kubuntu. But too many problems, followed your lead and installed mint first got everything working perfectly, onboard, right clicking with a long touch just works, you have no idea how tricky this is to make work on any other distro. Then I installed KDE. It all just works. Amazing. I'm also dual booting with FydeOS as this works great as well and gives you android apps. My machine for this is a surface pro 3. I have 3 of them for some reason. At £40 each, I think I'm addicted to buying them.>> <<@TrueZealand says : Hey Chris the reason the onscreen keyboard doesn't work is because it van see the physical keyboard attached>> <<@staninjapan07 says : If you are not sure it is possible, you want to call that Chris fella from Explaining Computers. He'll have it running in 5 minutes, and then he'll have it running on a toaster just for laughs. Thanks!>> <<@protocetid says : Mobile Linux has come a long way in the past two years, (or so I hear) and I’m curious if that extends to x86. Perhaps a part 2 is in order? AMD/Intel computers have so much utility, makes the typical ARM mobile device look like a child’s toy. PC CPUs are not as terrible as they used to be for tablets, they’re really getting slept on. Was considering picking up a tablet PC because theres a lot of allure to a mobile device with a mobile UI that can also switch to a desktop one with full PC functionality, but there’s almost no information online on how mature mobile Linux is on x86. Didn’t expect much of mobile Linux on x86, and I’m glad at least one person tried it out so thank you. AFAIK the only company that is even working on mobile Linux for their AMD/Intel tablet is Juno Computers, and there’s little information about their products out there. I assume their contributions to mobile Linux are open source and compatible with more devices than their tablet.>> <<@SteveInterdonato says : Of course I meant in the real old days I used UNIX.>> <<@SteveInterdonato says : Excellent video.My onlly complaint is with onboard itself having nothing to do with touch screens. I have been using linux for 20+ years. Onboard screen keyboard even on a normal linux (non touch) wehn you click the number key (123) it does not hold. You have to click the number key before each number. I have not found a way to make the numbers key work like the shift-hold key. However other onscreen keyboards in linux do solve this problem. my 2 cents>> <<@MrBobWareham says : This would be good on an Amazon Tablet! As it is running Linux anyway.>> <<@julientidebound8072 says : Very nice. Bit does anyone know how to configure touch control from browser on linux mint and simulation of the right mouse click with touch?>> <<@fraaggl says : on my Jumper EZPAD JPO10 I've tried 5 different distros and not a single one was able to boot.>> <<@mihailvormittag6211 says : 👍>> <<@kahrlozt says : The recent manjaro KDE update messed up OnBoard for me. So I ended up here to find alternatives. Sadly the KDE built-in on screen keyboard doesn't let you activate it other than at the login screen.>> <<@Lampe2020 says : The only problem I have with Onboard is that it doesn't work super well on Wayland, where fullscreen windows can cover it and it often pulls focus from the program I'm trying to type in because Wayland isn't made to allow apps to fully control their window, there only the user is supposed to have that control.>> <<@Lampe2020 says : 4:02 I've read on the KDE forums that you need to install a package called "maliit-keyboard" and then it will start working.>> <<@Lampe2020 says : I'm not so sure about JingOS, as when I went to the website's main domain (i.e. without the "forum.") it opened a login page titled "trojan 管理平台", which Google Translate translates to "Trojan Management Platform". I'm not sure something that openly brands as a trojan is trustworthy…>> <<@linuxrant says : I think issues with onboard happen because it does not support wayland well, but it should work fine in X.>> <<@linuxrant says : I tested various Linux distros on my 2 in 1 fujitsu. In some of them, like deepin and few others in order to move windows with touch you need to turn off gestures. Yes, I know how it sounds, but you need to try it, cos it solved the issue for me perfectly. one of the ways is to use xinput or xsetwacom and turn off gestures for the touch device.>> <<@eliotcfernandes says : @explainigComputers after install my tablet shows ubuntu boot failed>> <<@ravesab says : I'll try Linux Mint in an old Fujitsu Q550 with Windows 7...>> <<@kellyt6728 says : Linux Mint works all the time, love it>> <<@alsfishingandfamilyadventu7023 says : Hi , hoping you can tell me the mint os distro you used as i tried some linux 32 bit on my 500 t as i am not having any luck as yet thank you in advance>> <<@faisalyusoof5304 says : kubuntu 23.10 can install lenovo ideapad flex 5 1570 touch screen i7 8gen cpu pls answer me thank>> <<@permanentflux says : I just spent 10 hours yesterday trying to work with on screen keyboards in Lubuntu since I happen to have a touch monitor for an ASUS cn60 Chromebox with an i7 processor and 8 gigs of ram. First, I tried switching to the gnome desktop rather than the default lubuntu desktop to make it more touch friendly. Then I had to switch to the x-org graphics to get the Onboard keyboard unstuck from the top of the screen the way it was in your Manjaro experience. The problem now is that the default OSK still comes up when I click search in the application launcher, whereas if I am in Chrome browser it pulls up Onboard as desired. I just can't seem to get rid of that default keyboard no matter what I do. After watching your video, I'm just going to try Linux Mint instead of Lubuntu. 🤔👍>> <<@lanceevans1689 says : Thank you! I have a Samsung ATIV 700T that is just too slow using Win 10, especially with only 4 gigs of ram. I will look into Mint.>> <<@Fr4nkL33-D34DLY says : Which flavor of Linux Mint did you use? Cinnamon, Matte, or XFCE? Also, is it possible to wipe out the old operating system and just have Linux Mint on there? Just curious is all... :)>> <<@jeanclaudeisambart8720 says : super merci pour se tuto>> <<@Storm_. says : I'm surprised you ditched gnome / manjaro so quickly based on the keyboard position. I haven't tried yet but even with a cursory analysis I imagine that the keyboard won't show at the bottom because Gnomes dock is at the bottom. If you moved the dock to the side, or top, I assume the onboard keyboard would automatically change to the bottom for you. The advantage of using Gnome is that it's UI is tablet friendly, where as Mint's isn't.>> <<@christianrazvan says : Yea so...windows was the best choice from the start😅>> <<@vladlvv says : Idk why don't try arch with plasma mobile from aur.>> <<@overbuiltautomotive1299 says : but can you resize keyborg as it giant>> <<@johngreene6783 says : Which version of Mint and which desktop environment did you use?>>