OS to make windows good as a tablet

[Owais345]

So my grandfather teachers me math but he lives in another state and i have a fairly good convertible laptop but windows is too hard for him to use in tablet mode (it has win 11) 

[Needfuldoer]

9 minutes ago, Owais345 said:

So my grandfather teachers me math but he lives in another state and i have a fairly good convertible laptop but windows is too hard for him to use in tablet mode (it has win 11) 

Okay?

 

What does he need it to do?

[Owais345]

just to use a whiteboard like onenote and run zoom

 

 

[jaslion]

1 minute ago, Owais345 said:

just to use a whiteboard like onenote and run zoom

 

 

Well they can just use it like a normal laptop and swirch to convertable when needed. No real reason to ever use tablet mode

[Owais345]

2 minutes ago, jaslion said:

Well they can just use it like a normal laptop and swirch to convertable when needed. No real reason to ever use tablet mode

thats the thing the laptop detects that its being used as a tablet and changes its ui, and windows is generally lagy and slow on that laptop

 

 

[jaslion]

Just now, Owais345 said:

thats the thing the laptop detects that its being used as a tablet and changes its ui

 

Well just figured out tablet mode is now non optional

 

Awesome.microsoft

 

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/turn-off-tablet-mode-on-windows-11/da554e19-f106-4eee-ab4b-6efe1872431c

 

You can force some things to remain like normal which should make things ok?

[Owais345]

yeah but its a hard interface for my grandfather is there any OS that just makes it simple

[CosmicEmotion]

I haven't understood if this is purely a tablet or a laptop with a detachable screen but any Linux with the Gnome Desktop Environment should be fine. If this is a laptop I recommend Fedora with the Dash to Dock extension. If this is purely a tablet then any Linux OS with Phosh should be more than fine.

[wasab]

Pick up a chrome book 

[E-waste]

11 hours ago, Owais345 said:

its a hard interface

Linux Mint with default Cinnamon desktop should be simpler, and a bit lighter on resources.  MATE desktop is the revival of how Mint looked until Mint 12, gnome 2 style, using current components.

 

For zoom, Cinnamon has an "applet" by the clock called a11y, for accessibility features, including both Zoom and larger text.

 

KDE is fairly slow and absolutely bloated and boiling over with unneded and unwanted services that don't have a gui to disable, but also has a full-screen magnifier, and allows changing font sizes.  It has an interface very similar to Windows, it's just really bloated.  I had high hopes for the light desktop LXQT (qt is the toolkit that K desktop uses) but it has none of the accessibility features, and even changing the wallpaper is complicated, and doesn't keep a list.

 

Gnome has orca, a screen reader and magnifier, but I would imagine Gnome is far too different, trying to mimmic Apple's UI at every point, so it may be even more confusing than Windows 11 in tablet mode.

 

I still don't like the way gnome 3 or now v40 works, and the top bar is too cluttered.  MATE or XFCE any day are so much easier to use, with far more customuzation.