It definitely can work, but I am only familiar with my own example of one. I have these Fujitsu kiosk scanners at work that are, in fact, x86 based atom boards embedded within a Fujitsu scanner's body (it even has internal USB cords to connect it up). When I installed Debian with XFCE4, the touch screen worked out-of-box (worked with both Debian 7 and later Debian 8 out-of-box). The calibration was bad, but I fiddled with xinput to calibrate it properly.
Basically, support didn't come from XFCE4, it came from xorg itself. X handled auto detection of the touchscreen out-of-box, even if the default calibration was off. I just happened to be using XFCE4, but it would work with any desktop environment or window manager.
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