Ubuntu's Unity is designed to be usable by both touch and mouse.
This being said, the latest incarnation (15.04) is proving to be horrible unstable. About 1 in 5 times I un-sleep the box, there's text corruption in all the open windows, along with a few other problems. Everyone I know using 15.04 on the desktop is having weird problems of some sort.
I've only run a couple of linux laptops before, but they've not had issues with sleep. 15.04 has problems other than sleep, though, enough to make me switch back to debian. I see ubuntu as 'debian-with-convenience', so if the convenience evaporates... :)
This being said, the latest incarnation (15.04) is proving to be horrible unstable. About 1 in 5 times I un-sleep the box, there's text corruption in all the open windows, along with a few other problems. Everyone I know using 15.04 on the desktop is having weird problems of some sort.