> Most current and future audio DAWs and apps are going the down the multi-touch route (Bitwig, Presonus Studio One, etc).
Multitouch on Ubuntu is not fantastic, but it does work. I can use Bitwig without trouble on my touchscreen laptop.
The only major problem I've run into is that I can't figure out how to control the multitouch gestures, and some of them conflict with multitouch gestures that the DAW needs (for instance, making a three-finger chord on the on-screen keyboard).
Exactly what I meant, proper 10 point touch and gesture support. Out of curiosity, what kind of audio interface are you using, what audio stack and latency? It can be even trickier to get usb audio interfaces to work properly on laptops because of USB power throttling, which can be hard to configure under Linux.
Multitouch on Ubuntu is not fantastic, but it does work. I can use Bitwig without trouble on my touchscreen laptop.
The only major problem I've run into is that I can't figure out how to control the multitouch gestures, and some of them conflict with multitouch gestures that the DAW needs (for instance, making a three-finger chord on the on-screen keyboard).