I recently was able to acquire an older Dell Venue 11 Pro 7130 with an Intel i3-4030Y and 4GB of RAM.
I installed Fedora GNOME spin thinking GNOME might be the right DE for touch interfaces. Sadly it behaves sluggishly and the touch capabilities are lacking. Nautilus for example can’t deal with long clicks to simulate right clicks, making file browsing a chore since I need to plug in a mouse and keyboard.
Does anyone have any experience with older convertibles? What distro do you use to make use of the touch interface while keeping a snappy system?
Like dindongitsabear said, the touchscreen capabilities are not perfect, but you can try out some distros, see what works and what you like. I have Fedora 38 xfce installed on a Lenovo Miix 310-10ICR (I don’t have its keyboard), but it took some time getting the screen and on-screen keyboard to work adequately, and I still haven’t set up automatic rotation and right click function. But hey, at least the sound works with media playback. Here’s a video of some guy trying to get Linux and anroid OS running on his x86 tablet. Might want to have a look at: https://youtu.be/UaCwLjIf3sU Oh, and in my opinion, Void Linux is rather light-weight, you can get it as x86_64, and with that musl thingy, which, I heard is also faster performing or something. Another light-weight Gnome distro I can suggest is Zorin OS Lite.