Personally, I hate it. Most of my laptops are non touch: thinkpads, dells. .Even when ram price drops and i could afford the Framework, i would only go for the non pro 13 version. For the ones that came with touchscreen, I disabled it if i can.
Touchscreen just doesnt work for me on a laptop. If i want a touchscreen then i use my tablet or phone.
I use it all the time,. so much so when i trouble shoot friends laptops i keep forgetting they don’t have touch. I don’t have a tablet for that very reason, I don’t need more shit.
I have a Framework 12 on order to replace my Linux Surface Pro 7 that crapped itself.
as an aside, why is this an issue ? you know you can just not touch the screen yeah ? It’s not compulsory ffs!
My work laptop has a touch screen, the only time I’ve used the touch screen function is by accident and closed a chrome window that had about 15 mins of work that was lost.
If it’s a convertible and there’s a good stylus for it, it’s really convenient. I frequently take screenshots and use the stylus to write notes and make sketches on them. Couldn’t work without it.
I hate anything with touchscreens. Delayed feedback. Ugly interfaces.
It’s worse than using a mouse. Why would anyome want to reach that far to use it? It’s useless for a laptop. I can see why it’s used for an ipad.
it’s not an antifeature (trivial to disable) so i’m ok with it.
my laptop has an extremely shitty trackpad that sometimes decides to stop functioning until a power cycle, so i have the touchscreen configured to work like a trackpad with xf86 mtrack driver and use it when my trackpad fucks up.
I mean, it sounds like a good feature on paper, and it’s perfectly doable. Tablets have add-on keyboards, old phones had slide out keyboards, so touchscreens + keyboards IS a thing.
But, touchscreens on laptops? Nope. People don’t want that.
I won’t buy a laptop without it any more.
I don’t really need it most of the time, but I miss it when I don’t have it.
Same. I usually only use it when I’m clicking abutton on a webpage and it is faster than moving the mouse there
It’s convenient when there’s no mouse. Moving around on a trackpad can be slow and annoying. But not super necessary for me.
I only ever use touchscreen in tablet mode, and I’m only ever in tablet mode if I’m reading comics while eating lunch. Without a tablet mode, I find it pointless on laptops because I can be more efficient with keyboard and mouse/trackpad.
Yes please.
I despise touchpads on laptops.
Happens more than once I touch the screen instinctively.
A mouse makes it bearable at least.I don’t really see the point in touchscreens, I think it’s just a toy for a lot of money, like folding phones.only if you know exactly why you need it, then it’s OK, but most people will just use this feature and stop, because I don’t even know how convenient it is to draw in it, and whether it will damage the screen for a long time.
I use it for drawing
I find it more convenient on the train, than fumbling with touchpad or the mouse on my knee. It even beats the keyboard nipple. And using Niri with it is a joy.
I had a touch screen laptop for work at my previous job. I figured it out by accident after using for 4 years without noticing. I though “huh, that’s cool. This could be useful”, and then never actually used it for anything. I rate it a “meh” out of 10.
Four years without noticing? That’s a funny story, and something I’d definitely do too. They change our laptops every few years so you might have never noticed at my job.
