Re:XPS 13 developer edition 7th generation available
by derekp7 on Thursday January 04, 2018 @03:18PM
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The main reason for putting touch screens on laptops is that Windows 8 - 10 have an interface that is designed to be tablet friendly, at the expense of being desktop friendly. So it is easier to do an occasional touch gesture to do certain things. Also, things like kinetic scrolling is easier with touch. With a mouse, you have to click the button, move the mouse, then unclick while the mouse is sill moving. Much easier to just flick the screen with your finger.
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Re:XPS 13 developer edition 7th generation available
by torgard on Thursday January 04, 2018 @03:31PM
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But I thought XPS developer edition was supposed to be aimed at Linux users, specifically Ubuntu.
I use i3, which would (edit:) not benefit from the touch screen from the get-go. Maybe I could configure it to react to touch events in a cool manner, like moving windowed stuff around with touch. Resizing with two fingers.
That might actually be pretty cool
Re:XPS 13 developer edition 7th generation available
by zlynx on Friday January 05, 2018 @12:01AM
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I have an older Dell laptop with a 4K touch screen running Fedora 27. The touch screen works very well with Gnome and Chrome. So Linux users can get the same benefit that Windows users get.
Re:XPS 13 developer edition 7th generation available
by jsgo on Thursday January 04, 2018 @03:44PM
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well, as a developer they're giving you additional hardware to develop against so there's that case. But I think from the business standpoint, it probably doesn't make sense to have specific configurations for DE when being at or close to 1:1 with their Windows counterparts is probably easier in production.