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.
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.
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 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.
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 hate anything with touchscreens. Delayed feedback. Ugly interfaces.
I don’t like them. Anytime someone who uses one goes to use one of my normal laptops, they always try to touch the screen, which leaves fingerprints.
If you want a touchscreen, get a tablet.
This. I am totally anal about any specs or spots on my screens. Smudgy fingerprints are an abomination.
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
I habe a Framework 12. I habe not used the Touchscreen in Laptop mode once. I use it in Tablet mode to read sheet music, but even then I usually have a little Bluetooth Keyboard/Trackpad combo that I use.
first of all, my fat fingers would never be able to select a cell. second of all, my old collegues were always poking my screen when they tried to show me something, and moved everything around. i ran to the it dude after the 3rd poke accident if i could disable the touchscreen somehow in device manager…he is like: dude i couldnt care less what you do with that laptop, just disable it in the bios, its easier.
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.
If the laptop comes with a touchscreen, great! But I’m not going out of my way to get one.
There are a lot of touchscreen Thinkpads out there
I hate touch screens on laptops.
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.
If it’s a convertible it has its uses I guess considering you can turn it into essentially a big tablet, although I don’t like the keyboard being exposed on the bottom…
If it’s an ordinary laptop I really don’t see the point; among other issues it just feels awful to try and make more or less precise inputs when the screen hinge is actively fighting you by moving the screen back with every touch.
Then there are the smudges. I watch a lot of videos and stuff on my laptop and just can’t stand when the screen is all gunged up, it’s disgusting.
