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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.

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[–] sic_semper_tyrannis@lemmy.today 7 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] pirat@lemmy.ml 3 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Awesome, thanks for the info. what device have you been using?

[–] sic_semper_tyrannis@lemmy.today 5 points 4 hours ago

It's a Dell Inspiron 2 in 1. Quite nice actually. All metal, fingerprint reader works, 16:10, and other small things that add up to it being overall an enjoyable laptop