Never

If anything, it can be annoying when you go to clean something on the screen

I think I just self-reported my age…

Those laptops with the reversible screen and the Surface are convenient for genuinely using the touch screen on the go to play simple time killing games while waiting in public without messing with the peripherals

The ones that are just normal laptops with built in keyboards and a folding touchscreen only ever got touched when someone was demonstrating that it was a touchscreen

They could figure you out by the comments you make. They would know enough to know what computers you use based on you volunteering of information. I wouldn’t say perfectly but if something else lined up they could put it together. For sure. Did that answer you question?

I don’t have one, but when I was at uni one of the lecturers had this dinky old-looking laptop that apparently had a touchscreen, and he would project the screen and draw on it during lectures, which worked really well to illustrate what he was talking about. Had some software to just draw on top of what he was presenting, to be clear.

I bought a cheap 8" tablet on eBay many years ago, and really liked using it for college. Then when my regular laptop broke and I had some money, I went for one of those 13" Yoga thinkpads, thinking it would replace both the tablet and the aging laptop.

In the 7 or so years since I bought it, I can count the number of years that I used it on two hands. I’ve used the shitty old 2013 dell tablet more than the touch screen / pen input on the laptop. It mostly lives in a docking station on my desk, or gets used as a regular laptop. It’s just too big to be used as a tablet, period. Cool concept, wasn’t worth the extra money for me.

Depends. On my ROG Flow z13 it I’m playing a game I don’t typically have the keyboard/touchpad attached so touch is how to navigate, just use a controller. If I’m coding, browsing, doing most things I very rarely touch the screen.

i never thought I’d ever use my touchscreen but now I’m touching the screen of my other laptop that doesn’t have a touchscreen out of habit…

Sometimes it’s faster than finding the mouse cursor when clicking a link or a button (and when filling in forms with check boxes), but probably my biggest use is if I’m browsing around Google maps or Earth.

Click-drag click-drag on the trackpad is just slow and frustrating compared to just dragging the on-screen image.

I use a macbook sometimes and it’s a bit infuriating when I try to drag the screen.

I don’t use it constantly but I’m used to having the choice whenever I decide it’s easier.

I’ve had two and the only time I’ve used it is by accident. Something like the Lenovo Yoga where you can put it into touchscreen/drawing mode would work, but I don’t see how it’s useful to touch your screen at a weird angle.

My work computer has a touch screen. It is used about evenly by people pointing at my screen and accidentally touching it and one form I sometimes use where I have to select an option and hit next a bunch of times. It’s way faster to do that with a couple fingers than with a track pad or a mouse.

I use to use mine regularly, it was nice ergonomically to change between the trackpad and touchscreen. My arm needs a rest from being tucked up next to the trackpad. This makes most sense if the laptop is on your actual lap. Can’t do it anymore since my laptop broke.

It can be useful for drawing and photo editing without a mouse. Since I don’t do that much, it is practically useless

Pretty much never. Even if my hands are dry and clean, I get annoying marks on the screen.

I may rarely swipe to scroll, but if it’s anything else I’ll go hunt down a keyboard to plug into it instead of using the screen. Convertible, by the way, can;t see any reason to do it unless you have it detached from the base and in your hand like a giant phone.

Used to have one, literally never.