I didn't want to water down my previous thread, so I'm offering this up an a secondary discussion point.
My old (circa 2014) Lenovo ThinkPad Yoga has been gathering dust for the past year+ (since I retired). It came with Windows 10 Pro, but it's not able to be "upgraded" to Windows 11. I made it a dual/triple boot machine by "side installing" Linux Mint and MX Linux. All three OSes are past their "expiration dates," so I'm now thinking of scrubbing the whole machine and installing a single Linux distro. Since I already said it can't be "upgraded" to Windows 11, here are the specs, as best as I can find them.
The Yoga is a touchscreen "convertible" computer, that can be entirely flipped to being a fat 11.5-inch tablet, or stood up tent-like. It's powered by an Intel CELERON 1.8GHz CPU, has 8GB RAM and a 256GB 2.5" SATA drive. Wiping the computer also removes the Lenovo ThinkPad Advantage software, so firmware updates and the like will no longer be possible. Hey, it's an 11 year-old machine, so we can't have everything, right?
As I understand it, most Linux kernels these days support touchscreens. So, with the meager CPU, I'm looking for a Linux with touchscreen support, gyroscopic ability (for changing the orientation of the display) and usability both with the physical keyboard as well as onscreen tactile operation.
I booted the machine with a fresh copy of EasyOS on a USB stick, and the touchscreen is recognized and operational. I haven't yet set up the persistent system (it's resident on the USB stick), but as a first check, so far, so good.
Any suggestions as to which distro I should be looking at? Indicators are that GNOME and KDE are the best at touchscreens, but I'd rather hear from real users than paid online shills.