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Hi, Thank you for your efforts. Could you explain what exactly is better about the MacOS touchpad? Just to warn I've used Linux on a cheap PC notebook for the

Hi, Thank you for your efforts. Could you explain what exactly is better about the MacOS touchpad? Just to warn I've used Linux on a cheap PC notebook for the last ten years. I have only very occasionally used a macbook and generally found the touchpad unpleasant due a relatively slow movement (which also might make it more accurate but still doesn't enthrall me). I never particularly had a problem with the touchpad until recently - the current drivers get the location "lost" and needs a reboot about once a week (unloading and reloading with modprobe doesn't work. Also, the current touchpad simulates a three button mouse on a pad with no visible buttons, an effect that generally makes both the center and right buttons hard to use plus the keyboard has no right click button, complain-complain, minor stuff altogether and machine remains usable). Which is to say that you may be confronted with continual Linux desktop problem the your ideal of UI performance not being everyone's ideal (remember how everyone hated on the Gnome Shell? I still hate on the Gnome Shell). My own idiosyncratic UI ideal is more like older-Windows than Mac (I use Ubuntu Mate). Still, best of luck.

techdragon 8y ago
I find the MacBook precision remains just as good at higher pointer acceleration settings. In addition the same precision is normally present with all the various gestures with no loss of precision using multitouch inputs. Did you adjust any of the MacBooks you used to better fit your preferences? The slow default is the first setting I adjust because I agree the default pointer acceleration is far to slow for my tastes.
- bunderbunder 8y ago
  I crank it all the way up, myself. But I wanted to point out that this is a spot to be careful about decisions. The natural choice is to pick a default that you like yourself, but that's probably a choice that would ultimately hinder adoption of Linux as a desktop OS. Geeks like a faster setting, but geeks also universally know that this sort of thing can be customized, and can easily figure out how to change it. Non-geeks are more likely to find a fast setting to be frustrating or unusable, and are also less likely to know that they have an option to slow it down.
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Bud 8y ago
If the movement is too slow for you on a Mac trackpad, just take a few seconds and go adjust the settings. You can tweak the tracking speed however you want.

techdragon 8y ago

I find the MacBook precision remains just as good at higher pointer acceleration settings. In addition the same precision is normally present with all the various gestures with no loss of precision using multitouch inputs. Did you adjust any of the MacBooks you used to better fit your preferences? The slow default is the first setting I adjust because I agree the default pointer acceleration is far to slow for my tastes.

bunderbunder 8y ago
I crank it all the way up, myself. But I wanted to point out that this is a spot to be careful about decisions. The natural choice is to pick a default that you like yourself, but that's probably a choice that would ultimately hinder adoption of Linux as a desktop OS. Geeks like a faster setting, but geeks also universally know that this sort of thing can be customized, and can easily figure out how to change it. Non-geeks are more likely to find a fast setting to be frustrating or unusable, and are also less likely to know that they have an option to slow it down.
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Bud 8y ago

If the movement is too slow for you on a Mac trackpad, just take a few seconds and go adjust the settings. You can tweak the tracking speed however you want.