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Hi

I'm thinking about getting one and was looking at YouTube videos but none really showed it in use.

Like how keyboard works and all that.

Does anyone here have experience?

Thanks

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[–] dadarobot@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have one running manjaro gnome. Works great for me, but sometimes i have trouble with the onscreen keyboard showing up over the browser (both firefox and chrome). Other than that, it works just fine.

[–] turkelton@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can you tell me more about the typing experience of the onscreen keyboard?

[–] dadarobot@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago

I believe it's just the built-in wayland keyboard. It works just fine, but looks a little ugly for my tastes. If an app doesnt automatically bring up the keyboard, just swipe up from the bottom of the screen and itll come up

Other than that, its a pretty standard touchscreen keyboard. Youre not gonna be doing any "homerow typing" but its easy enough to use, especially in portrait mode. Landscape is a bit long for my thumbs.