Sure there are some handy three and four finger multi-touch gestures that work out of the box, but the go-to gestures (such as right mouse click and Firefox scrolling) simply don’t work. Once you get your hands on a supported device (such as the fantastic System76 Sable Touch running Ubuntu 14.10), you’ll find that not everything works as you’d expect.
Once you’ve used the touchscreen, you fully understand that they are, in fact, a much-needed breath of fresh air.īut in Linux-land, all isn’t exactly rosy.
It’s that piece of technology that is being threatened with extinction, thanks to the touchscreen. Ah the touchscreen ─ that piece of hardware that promises to finally strip humanity of an interface very much long in the tooth.
