On Tue, Jun 23 2015, Daniel Frey wrote: > 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
Thanks. I will wait until next cycle for a touchscreen. allan
