24.04 LTS, tested from a Ventoy USB on a Thinkpad E590. Touchpad tap to click options all completely greyed out. Plasma 5.27. No Wayland. Which is needed for three finger touchpad gestures. Unable to explore even those basic options, I logged out and will not return.

Also Plasma 5.27, but allowed tap to click out of the box. Allowed Wayland, though it bugged up the first time I attempted to switch out and choose it. I had to force shut down and repeat the steps. When I attempted to set the Star button in the F-key row to a shortcut, it only ever saw Fn being pressed and took that as my only inpput.

Worked flawlessly. Though not Wayland, enabling gestures takes a click in settings and it all is set up in a good way from default. Tested setting up the Star button on the Thinkpad to a shortcut, it properly ignored Fn pressed and the Star button came up as 'favourites'.

I’m using it to write this. Everything worked out of the box, it is actually installed, but I remember the live CD working flawlessly way back when I set it up too. I do have some issues. The Ubuntu Store shows a lot of trash apps. And the favouring of Snaps gets in the way of useability in very inconvenient ways. I could not paste a path into my torrent app earlier. Firefox won’t register magnet links to any of the snap apps. And when I was creating the Ventoy USB it took a really long time to allow me to unmount the USB. I guess it had only cached the ISO files to the stick and was still writing, but I had no indication of how it had gotten. I went for a shower and the stick finally allowed an umount in the mean time. The default scanning app, Document Scanner, finds my printer over the network. But compared to the Skanlight app, it is lacking. With Skanlight, it understands a preview should be a quick low dpi scan. It picks out the areas it sees content in. It sets the DPI for the full scan according to whether it sees a picture or text. This has been invaluable in quickly scanning documents and using a brilliant app called Frog to then extract the text. Gnome Software has been installed by me to circumvent the Ubuntu Store. Synaptic package manager is also there as a backup.

It just works. It annoys me, I expect it to break from some absurd thing I did, but then it boots right back up. Eg: Was reading somebody saying CachyOS kernel does some optomising, so I found instructions to set up the repository to get the kernel on Arch. I didn’t realise it would attempt to replace more than just the kernel. But after running the script again to remove it, Manjaro didn’t miss a beat. It does have a big amount of updates, which isn’t ideal for laptops I only boot once a week. It also isn’t clear on how the orphan package removal should be done safely.