Hey there folx, I’m getting ready to go back to school and I was curious of any distro that have good pen support. The basic use see is likely just reading studies and being able to highlight in the PDF.
I’m looking at either a new framework12 or trying to find a surface to meet these needs. Likely won’t be until next year I’m in school so I have time to tinker and troubleshoot.
This is more of a desktop environment thing than a distro-specific thing. If I recall correctly, both KDE Plasma and GNOME both have touchscreen support. Pretty much every, single distro offers one, the other, or both. So I’d just look for one who’s marketing to your usecase and try it out.
For the most part it is about the DE and not the distro.
In my experience KDE is the best compromise between touch usable but not touch first.
I’ve used Plasma via Fedora Kinoite and it works great. Flipping the 2in1 screen over disables the keyboard automatically and the touchscreen just works fine. Recently Plasma made nice changes to their on screen keyboard. Also, pressure sensitive pens worked perfectly as long as the note taking program utilized that function.
Me personally I am using a Lenovo Yoga 370 (don’t know what an update to date comparable model from Lenovo would be) with GNOME as DE. For PDF annotations I mainly use Xournal++, which works quite well for annotating PDF’s and highlighting certain parts. You can get more information in the Xournal++ Documentation at https://xournalpp.github.io/guide/pdfs/
