On 06/23/2015 10:50 AM, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: > On Tue, Jun 23 2015, Christopher Jones wrote: > >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> Regarding the touch screens/tablets, Gentoo has drivers for them. I've >> been using Gentoo on my tablet PC for years now. However there's no >> swipe capability. I've read someone who did it but that was just one >> person and couldn't figure out how he did it. I think they used KDE's >> Plasma. > > Thanks. I use gnome and would make little use of the touch screen > capability if it were available. As a result I decided against it for > this purchase since it appears the admin overhead would exceed the very > modest use I would make of it. Hopefully in 3 years, when I buy my next > laptop it will be well supported and "just works" in gnome. > > thanks again, > allan >
I discovered another mark against touchscreens - I tried to repair a friend's laptop with a touch screen (not a Dell) and found that the supply chain for parts for repair is slim to none. They do break and in a couple years you may not be able to find a digitizer (or if you do you can't get it separate from the laptop screen assembly - camera, screen, digitizer). And if you are really unlucky you'll find that the connectors are different from the non-touch to the touch models so swapping in a plain screen won't work. Dan
