• Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe
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    1 day ago

    Touch screen were a terrible idea as a keyboard replacement.

    My Treo had a touch screen and a killer keyboard. Stylus was only required for certain things - I’d do a grocery list in the store without the stylus because you just needed to hit one button on the screen.

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      24 hours ago

      Best laptop I ever had was an HP with touch screen and Ubuntu. Anything I couldn’t easily do with basic keyboard controls I’d just tap the screen. Had my start bar up the right side so I could poke with my dominant hand to me very between progams. It was accurate enough I could tap to set my typing course when I was editing documents and rarely have to arrow key around.

      I didn’t realize how much I’d miss it until I built my current desktop. If I knew how to DIY the two 32in TVs I use for monitors into touch I would in a heartbeat.

    • the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world
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      1 day ago

      I had an envy touch, I never used the touch screen for anything more than answering the phone other wise I’d flip it open and use the keyboard for most everything else.