Surface Laptop 3 running Kubuntu, such an improvement over what it was "designed" for.

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With Wayland it's pretty good

Is there a tablet mode?

Yup. I think I needed to manually install the touch keyboard. But once installed, it works as expected. Touch the screen or remove the physical keyboard, and touch mode gets activated. Whenever touching a text field, the soft keyboard pops out. It's massive, though (well, about the same size as the one for Windows).

Which one did you choose? The ones I found feeled pretty clunky to use...

Seems the one I use is Maliit. It's on the chunky side, but for the few times I type without the real keyboard, it does the job just fine I guess.

I hope you mean touchpad by touch, it has nothing to do with desktops, it relates xinput libinput synaptics sw common for X and wayland, window managers. If it works it does so before desktop layer is drawn, in some cases it can work on console as well with the right sw.

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