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I don't agree that touch is lacking. I use a Samsung Galaxy Book Win10 device which has a detachable keyboard and touch screen and I think it is great. Granted,

I don't agree that touch is lacking. I use a Samsung Galaxy Book Win10 device which has a detachable keyboard and touch screen and I think it is great. Granted, it is far heavier than a tablet, but when I need a terminal or console to get some scripting or programming done it is ready as I don't have to use an on screen keyboard to get the pipe or carat keys. By removing the keyboard the tablet has an acceptable weight. Plus it naively supports and comes with the S Pen for on screen drawing. The touch and drawing capabilities in W10 are fluid and always accurate for me. I enjoy having a desktop OS which brings computing without caveats in such a portable format. Kudos to Microsoft for continuously advancing Windows.

zozbot123 8y ago
> I don't agree that touch is lacking. "You don't agree", but people are saying as much in this thread. See the top comments about how the Surface touch experience sucks in comparison with the iPad (and this somehow proves that a "touch-first" device is inherently superior). There is no technical reason for this; the reason why touch interaction sucks on both Win 10 and current Linux desktop (yes, including GNOME 3) is that we've only just begun caring about it, as hybrid devices have come out (and, to take a slightly different angle, people have started caring more about having a real Linux desktop on mobile, largely touch-driven devices-- see the postmarketOS effort). I'm confident that Linux desktops will be able to reach feature parity with the touch UX of both AOSP and ChromiumOS with relative ease and in a short period of time (provided that GPU acceleration works properly, of course - the aforementioned OS's do rely on it). And iOS is not far beyond that.