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> As I understand it, the competition is barred from making similar touchpads due to patents I'm unwilling to believe that Apple discovered the one and only wa
by madeofpalk 8y ago
> As I understand it, the competition is barred from making similar touchpads due to patents
I'm unwilling to believe that Apple discovered the one and only way to make good Trackpad hardware.
- opportune 8y agoless "one and only", more "holy shit they have good lawyers and will ruin me if they want to and think they can"
- maggit 8y agoI agree, which I why I specifically said "similar" rather than "as good" or "better". I'm not impressed by competing touchpads.
- IshKebab 8y agoHave you used an Apple trackpad though? Because they genuinely are light years ahead of the competition. Why wouldn't they patent everything around that?
- collyw 8y agoWhat do they do that is different? I had a Mac from 2013 with Ubuntu installed. I didn't notice anything different other than a lack of way to emulate a third button.
- syspec 8y agothis whole thread is about getting the MacOS feel in linux when on mac hardeare becsuse it is not as good when hsed on linux. so what you tried is what this thread is trying to fix
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- collyw 8y agoSo what is different? You still didn't answer that. Every time I tried a mac the scroll was upside down and it annoyed me. Now windows seems to have adopted that.