> but other OS's do a way better job of having a unified interface for 'touch' and 'keyboard+mouse' input.
What are you thinking of? IOS? Android? GNOME? KDE? OSX?
Windows isn't perfect at this stuff, but it's honestly the best experience I've had with a 2 in 1 (Tablet with extra keyboard + touchpad). GNOME is close, but the UI arrangement is stupid (ok, it's worse on Windows, but I digress), pen right click doesn't work and the on screen keyboard is like from another universe (it also doesn't seem to be made for people with mice, but I digress again ...). On Windows I can set the keyboard to mini-mode (floats around in a small window) and slide on it with a pen, getting about the same input speed as when typing. It's quite amazing. It's just a shame that there's Windows around it.
Windows is good, yes. Especially for compatibility with standard desktop apps and new form factors like pen, handwriting, etc. But iPad with touchpad now is also good—better, perhaps, than the Pencil’s OS integration. Presumably the standardization of App Store categories means MacOS and iOS will align eventually as much as Windows modern and native apps can on the same (“desktop”) system. Both platforms and Chrome want app authors adapting new features, but developers generally implement what’s easiest/appropriate for their codebase, so... I think the next big leap in UI will be when AI recognizes and labels patterns in complex code for more advanced refactoring...
What are you thinking of? IOS? Android? GNOME? KDE? OSX?
Windows isn't perfect at this stuff, but it's honestly the best experience I've had with a 2 in 1 (Tablet with extra keyboard + touchpad). GNOME is close, but the UI arrangement is stupid (ok, it's worse on Windows, but I digress), pen right click doesn't work and the on screen keyboard is like from another universe (it also doesn't seem to be made for people with mice, but I digress again ...). On Windows I can set the keyboard to mini-mode (floats around in a small window) and slide on it with a pen, getting about the same input speed as when typing. It's quite amazing. It's just a shame that there's Windows around it.