People with touchscreen laptops, how often do you use the touchscreen features?

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.

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

ITT: people hating on touchscreens

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

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

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.

all the time. sucks to go back.

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.

Edit: the pen support has come in useful for electronically signing things multiple times!

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

Pretty much never. Even if my hands are dry and clean, I get annoying marks on the screen.

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.

I don’t use it consciously. But I do notice when I’m using a laptop without touchscreen - so I probably use it more than I think.
I mostly use it in tent mode with keyboard and mouse attached tho.

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!

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

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.

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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.

I use to use mine regularly, it was nice ergonomically to change between the trackpad and touchscreen. My arm needs a rest from being tucked up next to the trackpad. This makes most sense if the laptop is on your actual lap. Can’t do it anymore since my laptop broke.

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.

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

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.

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.

Literally never. Never on purpose, at least.

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.

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

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

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.

Only with the fancy stylus that came with it.

Very rarely. It’s my work laptop so I always have the mouse available. Occasionally it will sometimes be easier to just reach over and tap something on the screen.

Oh, and I hate the trackpad.

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

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.

My work laptop is a touch screen, The only time I’ve used it is when I accidentally brushed the corner of the screen reaching passed and closed the window I was working on.

When I had one, I used it a couple of times to play Civilization V on an airplane.

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.

Disabled it in BIOS, most useless feature in a laptop. Yoga like laptops that can flip the screen 18 degrees, sure. But a regular laptop - just why?

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.

Used to have one, literally never.

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

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.

It can be useful for drawing and photo editing without a mouse. Since I don’t do that much, it is practically useless

Never

If anything, it can be annoying when you go to clean something on the screen

I think I just self-reported my age…

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 may rarely swipe to scroll, but if it’s anything else I’ll go hunt down a keyboard to plug into it instead of using the screen. Convertible, by the way, can;t see any reason to do it unless you have it detached from the base and in your hand like a giant phone.

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 usually don’t use it.

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.

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.

You know… It comes in handy. I have a late model Acer laptop. It was a Costco special I bought for general usage years ago.

I don’t use it often but I’m bilingual and instead of getting stickers for the second language I use the on screen keyboard when I need to use the other language.

Also it’s great for when the lights are off and I can’t see the keyboard.

They could figure you out by the comments you make. They would know enough to know what computers you use based on you volunteering of information. I wouldn’t say perfectly but if something else lined up they could put it together. For sure. Did that answer you question?