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I hear that Gnome can struggle on touchscreens due to some GTK bugginess.
Plasma is probably a good bet since it has a dedicated touch friendly mode and is tested on the Steam Deck, which has a touch screen.
Will add that most buttons are far too small to touch reliably on my Steam Deck, so I use the track pad in KDE
this is a massive issue even on my tablet too, but many toolkits have this issue
Xournal uses GTK - so that not working nicely would be a bummer.
I didn't know about Steam Deck using plasma - nice!
I disagree. GNOME is a bit buggy, but plasma is not designed for touch, and I think that matters a lot. Steam deck also has touchpads that most users use when mousing about their regular de, the steam decks touch support is mainly meant for the steam bigscreen ui.