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.
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.
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!
I hate it. I forget and accidentally touch the screen and then things happen
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 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.
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 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.
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 use it for drawing
It’s convenient when there’s no mouse. Moving around on a trackpad can be slow and annoying. But not super necessary for me.
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.
Yes please.
I despise touchpads on laptops.
Happens more than once I touch the screen instinctively.
A mouse makes it bearable at least.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.
