I recently acquired one thinking it was going to be a cool and useful feature, and the only time I think to use it is when I brush away a loose cat hair and my cursor goes all over the place. And the tablet mode, I think I used it once as a novelty.
Never
If anything, it can be annoying when you go to clean something on the screen
I think I just self-reported my age…
Me: so rarely that I keep forgetting it’s a touch screen
My wife and daughter: constantly, so my screen is full of their fingerprints
Never. I didn’t realise it had a touch screen when I got it, i disabled it, and I don’t miss it.
Wait you can disable that shit?
It appears in Gnome and Xfce as a touchpad, turn it off in settings.
Ah, now I get it why there are both touchpad and mouse even though no mouse connected! Thanks!
I have kde, so I disabled it in xorg config
I have never had a laptop with a touch screen keyboard. I did use to own a Microsoft “surface” that was more like a tablet that had a detachable keyboard. I tended to use it primarily as a tablet and maybe 25% of the time I would attach the keyboard to use.
I have a tablet that mostly gets used as a laptop and I rarely touch the screen when I have a keyboard/trackpad attached.
I miss having it, I still occasionally forget I don’t have it. I would use it to select tabs, open programs, scroll pages, zoom in and out. I loved it, I’m legit thinking of replacing my current laptop screen with one that is a touch screen.
Since the battery in the pen stopped charging, almost never now.
My work computer has a touch screen. It is used about evenly by people pointing at my screen and accidentally touching it and one form I sometimes use where I have to select an option and hit next a bunch of times. It’s way faster to do that with a couple fingers than with a track pad or a mouse.
I’ve had two and the only time I’ve used it is by accident. Something like the Lenovo Yoga where you can put it into touchscreen/drawing mode would work, but I don’t see how it’s useful to touch your screen at a weird angle.
Sometimes it’s faster than finding the mouse cursor when clicking a link or a button (and when filling in forms with check boxes), but probably my biggest use is if I’m browsing around Google maps or Earth.
Click-drag click-drag on the trackpad is just slow and frustrating compared to just dragging the on-screen image.
I use a macbook sometimes and it’s a bit infuriating when I try to drag the screen.
I don’t use it constantly but I’m used to having the choice whenever I decide it’s easier.
I bought a cheap 8" tablet on eBay many years ago, and really liked using it for college. Then when my regular laptop broke and I had some money, I went for one of those 13" Yoga thinkpads, thinking it would replace both the tablet and the aging laptop.
In the 7 or so years since I bought it, I can count the number of years that I used it on two hands. I’ve used the shitty old 2013 dell tablet more than the touch screen / pen input on the laptop. It mostly lives in a docking station on my desk, or gets used as a regular laptop. It’s just too big to be used as a tablet, period. Cool concept, wasn’t worth the extra money for me.
i never thought I’d ever use my touchscreen but now I’m touching the screen of my other laptop that doesn’t have a touchscreen out of habit…
I don’t have one, but when I was at uni one of the lecturers had this dinky old-looking laptop that apparently had a touchscreen, and he would project the screen and draw on it during lectures, which worked really well to illustrate what he was talking about. Had some software to just draw on top of what he was presenting, to be clear.
Depends. On my ROG Flow z13 it I’m playing a game I don’t typically have the keyboard/touchpad attached so touch is how to navigate, just use a controller. If I’m coding, browsing, doing most things I very rarely touch the screen.
Those laptops with the reversible screen and the Surface are convenient for genuinely using the touch screen on the go to play simple time killing games while waiting in public without messing with the peripherals
The ones that are just normal laptops with built in keyboards and a folding touchscreen only ever got touched when someone was demonstrating that it was a touchscreen
