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Touch centered desktop uis need to die

mrweasel 8y ago
One of the features I specifically look for in a laptop is "NO TOUCH SCREEN". I really don't understand it. Why would I want touch on a laptop or desktop PC?
- mirkules 8y ago
  I sometimes use touch on my XPS. I realized it's only when I'm showing stuff to others, and because the touchpad is inadequate (like broken side scrolling). But I'm a "don't leave smudge marks on my screen" type of person.
  - ZanyProgrammer 8y ago
    Given how smudgy my iPad looks from just reading a book or watching Netflix...my laptop would be a literal mess after not very long.
- spiritcat 8y ago
  for doing mobile development obv
- cesarb 8y ago
  Story time. At a previous company, we had an annoying crash bug - it crashed on some of the client's computers, but never on any of ours. Finally the client lent us the personal laptop of one of their workers, which reliably reproduced the crash, and we debugged it while sitting on one of the client's meeting rooms and found the cause. It was a crash deep in the obsolete framework we were using, which manifested when receiving a particular kind of accessibility message, which came from one of the components for Microsoft's touch screen system. The reason we could never reproduce the crash before was that, being techies, none of us had any modern laptop, personal or not, with a touch screen. The client, being less technical, had some of their workers with touch screen laptops and the then-recent touch-focused version of Windows (which we also tended to avoid).
  - discreditable 8y ago
    This reminds me of an ongoing issue with our org's website. The devs are using an ancient jquery for an image gallery widget. The gallery doesn't respond to mouse clicks on any of our PCs because that jquery version sees touch support and expects you to use only that. All of our devices have touch screens.
- cjarrett 8y ago
  I actually love mine on my Razer Blade. Admittedly, I don't use it too much, but I find myself on occasion wanting to touch my MBP.

One of the features I specifically look for in a laptop is "NO TOUCH SCREEN". I really don't understand it. Why would I want touch on a laptop or desktop PC?

mirkules 8y ago
I sometimes use touch on my XPS. I realized it's only when I'm showing stuff to others, and because the touchpad is inadequate (like broken side scrolling). But I'm a "don't leave smudge marks on my screen" type of person.
- ZanyProgrammer 8y ago
  Given how smudgy my iPad looks from just reading a book or watching Netflix...my laptop would be a literal mess after not very long.
spiritcat 8y ago
for doing mobile development obv
cesarb 8y ago
Story time. At a previous company, we had an annoying crash bug - it crashed on some of the client's computers, but never on any of ours. Finally the client lent us the personal laptop of one of their workers, which reliably reproduced the crash, and we debugged it while sitting on one of the client's meeting rooms and found the cause. It was a crash deep in the obsolete framework we were using, which manifested when receiving a particular kind of accessibility message, which came from one of the components for Microsoft's touch screen system. The reason we could never reproduce the crash before was that, being techies, none of us had any modern laptop, personal or not, with a touch screen. The client, being less technical, had some of their workers with touch screen laptops and the then-recent touch-focused version of Windows (which we also tended to avoid).
- discreditable 8y ago
  This reminds me of an ongoing issue with our org's website. The devs are using an ancient jquery for an image gallery widget. The gallery doesn't respond to mouse clicks on any of our PCs because that jquery version sees touch support and expects you to use only that. All of our devices have touch screens.
cjarrett 8y ago
I actually love mine on my Razer Blade. Admittedly, I don't use it too much, but I find myself on occasion wanting to touch my MBP.