Then she'd ask me for help and rather than have to wait for her to find what button I was talking about I'd just tap the screen a few times and we were off and running again!
I'd been using Linux as my primary OS for years at that point, so I think I'm pretty critical of Microsoft in general, however they did a good job building a touchscreen interface.
The state of touchscreen support in Linux was pretty bad the last time I checked though.
Anecdotal — but have had no trouble for the last two years with my dell xps. Other issues with said laptop (keyboard), but touchscreen support in linux isn't one of them.
My Surface Pro 1 is the only computer I have with a touchscreen right now, and it has enough other driver issues (the wifi and the Wacom drivers suck) that I probably won't be trying again on that.
And in effect, that's what I've used for many years. I have a relatively large touchpad. And when I need resolution, a graphics tablet.
The Surface Studio is cool, but I'd want something that resisted coffee and food splatters ;) As the original Surface did.[0] It could also scan text :) Which is something that I, when I was first learning about PCs, naively expected.
0) https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft-surface-pixelsense-...