Any reason for Touch Screen in Ubuntu?

[he-u]

So I have been trying to figure this out. Is there a reason for a Touchscreen laptop if running Ubuntu? Looking at a System76 laptop and wonder if I should go with the one with touchscreen or the one with a better graphic card.

What are your thoughts on the subject of Touch Screen and Ubuntu?

[grahammechanical]

My thoughts? Is the original graphic card suitable for what you want? Or will the "better" graphic card not be used to the full extent of its capabilities?

I think that touch screens are the way forward. Ubuntu already has touch screen capabilities but by the release of Ubuntu 16.04 the Ubuntu phone/tablet code base will have been converged with the Ubuntu desktop code base and a touch screen might be very useful.

Even so, the phone/tablet applications are being re-written so that they scale to the larger screens used with laptops and desktop PCs and should work using keyboard and mouse. So, I would not say that a touch screen will be a minimum requirement.

Regards.

[monkeybrain20122]

I don't know, personally i don't like having greasy finger prints all over my screen. :)

[QIII]

Wear finger cots.

[lisati]

I don't know, personally i don't like having greasy finger prints all over my screen. :)
Neither do I. :D

Wear finger cots.
Huh? I've never heard of finger cots before, but can guess.

[ian-weisser]

I quite like my Ubuntu 14.04 with full touch screen support out-of-the-box.

Sometimes I drag the cursor around using the trackpad.
Sometimes I poke the screen or move the cursor around with my finger.

After 30 years with a mouse or trackpad, I didn't see the point of a touchscreen either. But it's fun.

[buzzingrobot]

I don't know, personally i don't like having greasy finger prints all over my screen. :)

Ditto.

Touch screens are useful for devices I hold in my hand. Why? Because a real keyboard won't fit. (Although I still see Blackberry users rapidly thumbing away on their keyboards.)

For more than trivial amounts of typing or data entry, a physical keyboard is needed.

And... We'd all develop "touchscreen shoulder' if we spent hours every day repeatedly reaching out at arm's length to poke at a screen.

[3rdalbum]

So I have been trying to figure this out. Is there a reason for a Touchscreen laptop if running Ubuntu? Looking at a System76 laptop and wonder if I should go with the one with touchscreen or the one with a better graphic card.

What are your thoughts on the subject of Touch Screen and Ubuntu?

Ubuntu Software Center has several games that require a touchscreen.

[mastablasta]

if the laptop is the kind that you can detach the screen or flip it or something then touchscreen makes sense. otherwsie on regular laptop not so much.

i kind of like the Medion laptop i saw. aside from seperatign the screen and it becomes a tablet it also has external disk slot. so you don't have it dangling on the side. anyway too bad it's only available as a win8 pc.

touchscreen is otherwise good for consuming (reading, browsing, wathcing...). for other things not so much. maybe for some specialised things.

[/ADM]

Touchscreen laptops.. urgh. As others have said, if it is detachable and you're going to be reading news etc then it's good. But if you're at your desk with some munchies, you're not only going to be getting a filthy screen but also carple tunnel from constantly having your arm in a horizontal position ;)

Maybe someone will develop an elevated arm-rest for touchscreen users..

[LastDino]

Personally speaking I only like touchscreen when it is on hand-heald devices like smart phone or tabs. ''Small screen'' Lappy having touch screen wont necessarily be bad but I still prefer keyboard. Having touchscreen on desktop would be equal to nightmare. I might end up throwing it out due to all the pain it will cause in my arms.