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Hey you, you wanna install Linux?
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Mint is good but if you want the best touch screen support with gestures and an automatic on screen keyboard, you will want a distro that is using the gnome desktop environment (it is also android-like). Well known distros that come with this are Fedora Workstation, ZorinOS, and Ubuntu.
Interesting. I thought Mint was a version of Ubuntu.
It's based on it yes, but they use different desktop environments. The desktop mint uses is called Cinnamon.
its a fork of, downstream, tears out a bunch of the annoying shit and has different ux.
It's a (better IMO) derivative of Ubuntu, but it uses the Mint desktop environment by default while Ubuntu uses Gnome. To a casual user, most distros are pretty similar other than their defaults. Those defaults aren't even particularly hard to change. For example, switching mint to Gnome is one command and a couple GUI clicks: https://itsfoss.com/install-gnome-linux-mint/