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Re:The Decline of Usability (2020) by NikolaNovak on Sunday September 10, 2023 @02:00PM (#37458305)
I've had touchscreen laptops for about 7years now. The only time that the touchscreen gets used is when somebody is showing me something, doesn't realize it's a touchscreen, and accidentally borks whatever we were looking at.

It's strange - I love to optimize my flow, but I just haven't yet hit a situation where my hands leaving keyboard and touching the screen is faster. (I'm a die-hard and proficient track point user,and my hands never leave keyboard, so maybe I'm a special weird case?)

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Re:The Decline of Usability (2020) by Ensorceled on Sunday September 10, 2023 @03:04PM (#37458898)
Reaching for the screen all the time also sounds like a shoulder RSI just waiting to happen.
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Re:The Decline of Usability (2020) by JohnFen on Tuesday September 12, 2023 @01:35PM (#37484674)
> is when somebody is showing me something, doesn't realize it's a touchscreen, and accidentally borks whatever we were looking at.

It's funny -- I've been using my work laptop for over a year and only yesterday discovered that it has a touch screen by doing exactly this.

I haven't bothered to figure out how to disable the touchscreen yet, but it's on my todo list.

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