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 for drawing
Never understood touchscreen on laptop. I can imagine artists might need this in some workflows but I doubt they’d use shitty touchscreen instead of specialized tools like stylus or dedicated device. But for everyone else idk when do you even want to use them.
Sometimes it’s faster to lift my finger to tap than go to the touchpad and move that + click, but it’s not often
It’s only useful if the laptop is convertible (screen can flip all the way around & become like a heavy tablet). Particularly useful when I need to run something Android-based. I don’t see the point in a touchscreen you have to reach out over the keyboard to use.
Even then, it’s only useful when you are using a program that doesn’t need the keyboard, and only if you don’t need to use any other programs at the time.
For example, if you are in class and you want to take notes, a separate tablet works a lot better than folding the laptop.
i find it pretty great for idly browsing the internet or otherwise passively consuming content. reading, videos, social media like you’d do on a phone. they can do well with notes if you don’t mind mixing typed and written notes.
Touchscreens have their use on other devices but are a gimmick on laptops. Reaching up and over your keyboard, suspending your arm in the air while you tap on a thin, wobbly display is an ergonomic disaster and a shite input method in general.
Now if the screen can flip around into a tablet position then it makes a lot more sense, but just a touchscreen on its own is a gimmick.
I don’t want fingerprints on my laptop screen.
If you have to reach out to a screen to touch it, you’re at risk of developing Gorilla Arms, a RMI.
Laptops are hell on your spine. Seriously reconsider.
Unless I have a physical mouse the next best thing is touchscreen for me. I really hate touchpad. I haven’t had much practice with the pointing stick aka red nub, but I’d probably prefer that with a little bit of practice over the touchpad as well.
I do get that an overly used touchpad screen on laptop is gross and I’d avoid using it, but if there weren’t better alternatives…
Have you tried a Mac trackpad? Those are so good it might make you change your mind.
This. There are two kinds of trackpads not made by Apple. Those that try to be as good as the Apple one and those that don’t. I have more experience with the ones who don’t, as I’m sure is the case with the person you replied to.
As to the other type… I imagine they’re a bit better. Bigger surface area, multi-touch gestures, might even have a trick the Apple one doesn’t, but still wouldn’t be quite as good.
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.
So… it depends. If it’s a normal laptop I’m not SUPER interested in it but don’t hate it. I do use the track pad a lot so if that was messing up I could use the touch screen. But normally I won’t use it in laptop mode. The depends is a 2 in 1. If I can flip it over and use it as a tablet I will do that. How nice it is depends on software tho in that case. A nice gesture based experience like Gnome would be great. But I doubt I’d enjoy doing that on windows. I haven’t used windows in years but I imagine a touchscreen on it would be not very intuitive.
So the Framework Pro 13 annoys me since it can’t flip all the way around. I actually am considering making a cyberdeck with an existing framework 13 mainboard I have and a framework pro screen and making it into a tablet form factor but nice and thick with plenty of ports and maybe a CD player. I’d love something like that.
I hate anything with touchscreens. Delayed feedback. Ugly interfaces.
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
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.
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.
As others have pointed out, touch has it’s uses. For most people, probably not needed and maybe more of an active annoyance anyhow.
However, my Framework 12 foldable laptop with touch is extremely handy for my purposes. I intentionally purchased it over the larger/better Framework 13 because I need a touchscreen for work and I wanted it to be foldable to sit on cramped flat surfaces more easily.
I often work as a lighting technician supporting live DJs, and despite the venue having it’s own touch screens, it’s absolutely clutch to be able to bring my own and either use my lighting software or remote desktop to control the venue’s lighting panels. Sometimes the venue will have panels that are unfortunately positioned or simply uncomfortably far away from the DJ’s mixer. The mixer displays a waveform I need to be looking at to do effective lighting. Being able to have my touchscreen laptop there so I can touch the lighting cues as needed is crucial.
