How good is touch support for Ubuntu on a Rasperry Pi 4?

Last Updated on May 17, 2023 by pg@petergamma.org

In the video of leepspvideo recorded two years ago, at 11 min in the video:

• We can see that touch support is not as good for Ubuntu as for Raspberry Pi OS.

But this video of The Byteman for Raspberry Pi 4: Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish)

• Shows that touch support seems to have developed further.
• It is based on a Ubuntu daily build.

But this video recorded one year ago by U-Labs | Raspberry Pi, IT & Technikshows that under Ubuntu, applications open rather slow on the Raspberry Pi 4:

• Which is similar to Fedora on the Rasperry Pi.

U-Labs | Raspberry Pi, IT & Technik has good reviews of high quality in German.

• For non German speakers, you can find written transcriptions of the videos which can be translated by Google translate:

Ubuntu auf dem Raspberry Pi 4 Installationsanleitung & Test: Was funktioniert, wie ist die Performance? Raspberry Pi OS Alternative

• The links to the text versions can be found below the videos.

Is the Rasperry Pi 4 a good SBC for a full Linux OS? Touch support on Ubuntu seems to have made progress, but the performance of full Linux OS on a RP4 is still weak.