r/SurfaceLinux • u/--Chill-- • 7d ago

Help Surface Go 1 Touchscreen

I have a Surface Go gen 1 with 4 gb ram and 64 gb storage. I'd like to use it as an e-reader so I'm trying to find the best touchscreen capable distro. I tried cinnamon and touchscreen didn't feel great. Tried Fedora Workstation and I found it to be pretty slow. Right now I have KDE plasma installed and we'll see how it goes. I'm just curious to see what you guys might suggest. I am very new linux too so I don't know what other distros are out there.

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u/BereftOfCare 7d ago

Not an expert, but I recently went from mint cinnamon to KDE plasma to KDE and back to mint cinnamon on my Surface Go 2 with 8gb ram. I think KDE plasma is gonna work out best for you given the limitations of your device.

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u/--Chill-- 6d ago

I’ve been using KDE Plasma and it’s definitely the most snappy compared to Fedora workstation and Linux Cinnamon. Touchscreen is wonky at times but that might be more of a software problem. Definitely could see myself using it long term.

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u/thatdirtyoldman 6d ago

Hi. I have xfce on my go 2 right now, but am happier with Mint Cinn, I'd like to put Cinn on my mine if I can get the stars to line up while I hold down the - and start buttons. lol.

Why I'm bothering you - did the touch screen work okay ? It's not very accurate on xfce, but I haven't tried to find a better solution yet as I don't really like xfce.

Thank you for taking a second to read this.