I habe a Framework 12. I habe not used the Touchscreen in Laptop mode once. I use it in Tablet mode to read sheet music, but even then I usually have a little Bluetooth Keyboard/Trackpad combo that I use.

My work laptop has a touch screen, the only time I’ve used the touch screen function is by accident and closed a chrome window that had about 15 mins of work that was lost.

I hate anything with touchscreens. Delayed feedback. Ugly interfaces.

If it’s a convertible and there’s a good stylus for it, it’s really convenient. I frequently take screenshots and use the stylus to write notes and make sketches on them. Couldn’t work without it.

it’s not an antifeature (trivial to disable) so i’m ok with it.

my laptop has an extremely shitty trackpad that sometimes decides to stop functioning until a power cycle, so i have the touchscreen configured to work like a trackpad with xf86 mtrack driver and use it when my trackpad fucks up.

I use it for drawing

Love it. Especially for exploring maps together with my wife.

As others have pointed out, touch has it’s uses. For most people, probably not needed and maybe more of an active annoyance anyhow.

However, my Framework 12 foldable laptop with touch is extremely handy for my purposes. I intentionally purchased it over the larger/better Framework 13 because I need a touchscreen for work and I wanted it to be foldable to sit on cramped flat surfaces more easily.

I often work as a lighting technician supporting live DJs, and despite the venue having it’s own touch screens, it’s absolutely clutch to be able to bring my own and either use my lighting software or remote desktop to control the venue’s lighting panels. Sometimes the venue will have panels that are unfortunately positioned or simply uncomfortably far away from the DJ’s mixer. The mixer displays a waveform I need to be looking at to do effective lighting. Being able to have my touchscreen laptop there so I can touch the lighting cues as needed is crucial.

I use it all the time,. so much so when i trouble shoot friends laptops i keep forgetting they don’t have touch. I don’t have a tablet for that very reason, I don’t need more shit.

I have a Framework 12 on order to replace my Linux Surface Pro 7 that crapped itself.

as an aside, why is this an issue ? you know you can just not touch the screen yeah ? It’s not compulsory ffs!

It’s only useful if the laptop is convertible (screen can flip all the way around & become like a heavy tablet). Particularly useful when I need to run something Android-based. I don’t see the point in a touchscreen you have to reach out over the keyboard to use.

I mean, it sounds like a good feature on paper, and it’s perfectly doable. Tablets have add-on keyboards, old phones had slide out keyboards, so touchscreens + keyboards IS a thing.

But, touchscreens on laptops? Nope. People don’t want that.