After a bunch of comments pointing out to the fact that my GNOME touch issues were linked to Ubuntu, I did another try, on Fedora, this time, and yeah, it's MUCH better.

I also gave a shot to Plasma Mobile (excellent), and Phosh (less excellent on a big screen):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCSs4CbxZHk

I was WRONG about Linux & touchscreens: GNOME, Plasma Mobile and Phosh tested

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@thelinuxEXP
Thanks for the follow up video!

I use Phosh on my StarLite V and the OSK is appropriately sized for the width of the screen in portrait mode. The scaling of OSK seems to be based on the scaling of the screen and I don't think it likes scales except 100%, 200% etc. It's a little funky but way more usable than what you experienced!