Dear Sbird,

Thank you again for reporting back to me on your experience. I actually ended up testing the Fedora KDE spin just now, but I found that the camera function button didn’t work for me (not so important). The microphone off function button next to it did work, however, but neither of the indicator lights worked. (Again not such a big deal). The Caps Lock key indicator light worked, however.

I looked into it more and I think that what ASUS had marketed as DC dimming is actually just a software trick, so I don’t think your missing anything with that.

I tested the IR camera, and the webcam, and both worked. If I ever switch that laptop to Linux fulltime I will follow your advice about the Howdy fork!

I was actually able to get the numberpad thing on the trackpad to work, and the gesture to open the calculator even worked well. I think the layout for our laptop would be “M433IA.” It was a little buggy for me though. I couldn’t change the brightness level on it, and some other issues like it stop lighting up and needing to restart the service.

I think the KDE desktop was great that it allows for quarter screened windows easily. I also really like that it has a built in clipboard manager using the windows key plus v, but for some reason copy and paste with the clipboard was a little buggy for me as it wouldn’t work unless I pasted in the same window first and then copied it again somehow.

My main pain point of KDE is actually that it has the four finger swipe up to get an overview of all apps though, putting my pinky finger down just makes it a more cumbersome process for me compared to using the three-figured gesture which seems to be the standard everywhere else.

For now I’ll still be going back to Windows. But I imagine I will probably swtich to Linux completely at some point.