ITT: people hating on touchscreens

Also ITT: people pointing out really good reasons to have a touch screen.

I recently pulled out my previous laptop that I'd used for several years before getting my current one. I don't remember how long I'd had the previous one, but it's been quite a few years.

While working on my project with that laptop I accidentally bumped it and knocked it off my desk. Reflexively, I grabbed for it and managed to catch it by the corner of the screen.

And that's how I found out my laptop had a touchscreen.

all the time. sucks to go back.

used to have one. loved it. I hate trackpads and having a touchscreen saved me from cramping the tendons in my hand.

bring back the nipple!

I honestly forget it had a touchscreen all the time. I grew up before the prevalence of touch screen devices so it never occurs to me that something with a built in physical keyboard could be interacted with that way.

When I had a work laptop with one, I used it daily for quick UI things, browser windows, start menu stuff. I used it a lot. I'd never spend more to own one myself, but the work one I had was nice.

Every once in a while I accidentally tap and am reminded I have a touch screen.

I have a much older laptop with a stylus interface that I'll use to draw things when I need to.

Often. Easier on the train than using the touchpad. But a x86 tablet with a sliding-over keyboard would be even better.

I used to note take constantly on the Surface line so all the time. Even now I still use it quite a bit since it became so natural.

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

I use one for sound recording, as tapping controls on a screen makes far less noise than a keyboard or mouse of any make or model.

Mine is a two-in-one where the keyboard can fold fully backwards and it puts the laptop in "tablet mode." I use it constantly for reading comic books, as rotating to a portrait frame and swiping through pages is much easier than scrolling/zooming on each page with mouse and keyboard.

I also occasionally use it for doodling when I'm traveling, but I've got a nicer setup for that on my desktop. So that's a corner case.

Only with the fancy stylus that came with it.

Never. I didn’t realise it had a touch screen when I got it, i disabled it, and I don’t miss it.

I pretty much only use touchscreen for kolourpaint so I can do some math or something

Sometimes, mostly for a quick volume or pause/play press.

Being able to fold it right round can be useful as it uses less space when you are just playing a video or something. (Less chance of damaging it while cooking too!)

I got a fancy one with a pen, but found that trains are really not as smooth as I thought so the plan of learning to draw on the train never happened.

occasionally. It's nice to have, but I wouldn't go out of my way to buy a laptop with one. Sometimes I use it to quickly scroll or tap a button if my hand isn't already near the mouse. Not too often, but saves me a fraction of a second once every few weeks :)

I had a Surface Pro all through college, and used it for note taking in all my classes (pen on screen), which was fantastic. Haven't really used the touchscreen function since though, and it's been quite a few years.

Only to answer teams calls because I can hit the notification with my pinkie rather then moving my hand to the mouse.

Mostly simple things. Changing and closing tabs and windows, toggling bluetooth, etc. Anything where the button is visible and big enough hit easily.

Literally never. Never on purpose, at least.

Work laptop. I use it when I’m sharing my screen and we’re discussing a map or drawing of something. Pretty useful. Especially the pinch zoom function when whatever app I’m using doesn’t have an intuitive zoom function.

Not work laptop. If I’m reading an article on the couch sometimes I’ll scroll down using the touch screen.

The vast majority of the time on accident when pointing to something on the screen, maybe a couple times on purpose when the mouse was in an awkward place.

I would rather not use the touchscreen but it doesn't come up enough for me to find the setting to turn it off.

All the time because the Surface keyboard is a piece of shit

Since the battery in the pen stopped charging, almost never now.

never bought one for it and never used it on ones that have it. its surprisingly common for the last many years and it was sorta hard to avoid if you otherwise don't care and were looking for a baseline of features at the best price.

I put FydeOS on mine and Sketchbook. I use it almost entirely as a tablet and draw with a USI stylus.

ergonomically its terrible. initially got it to work on some touchscreen code, but hardly used it for that and never for anything else. except when my battery swelled up and made the touchpad stop working for a while.

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.

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.