Re: [gentoo-user] purchasing a dell laptop

On Tue, Jun 23 2015, Daniel Frey wrote:

> On 06/23/2015 10:50 AM, gottlieb@×××.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