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Can people who work on both platform comment on the biggest issues for them? Nowadays I work mostly at my desk, but for several years I've worked 90% of the ti
by ht85 6y ago
Can people who work on both platform comment on the biggest issues for them?
Nowadays I work mostly at my desk, but for several years I've worked 90% of the time on my laptop keyboard. Synaptics with a bit of customization (Area*Edge size for palm detection, single and double tap timings) worked extremely well, and I consider myself very picky.
Edit: this seems to be about libinput, in which case I understand, as the two times I've used libinput I gave up after a few hours of intense frustration
- riquito 6y agoI use a mac at work and a Thinkpad with Linux (Fedora) at home. Personally I can't notice any difference (on the other hand the Thinkpad keyboard is glorius). I wonder if people refer to gestures, which I don't use.
- surfsvammel 6y agoI don’t think it’s about gestures. I have two MBP (2015 and 2018), Lenovo cirka 2017 (stock Ubuntu), an Asus Zen (PopOS) something from 2018 and a Dell something cirka 2016 (Windows). Nothing beats a he MBPs trackpads. I’m not sure what it is exactly, but I feel that on Windows the cursor drifts, when I lift my finger. On Linux I feel the trackpad is very sensitive (I get more cursor jumping around). Also, on both Windows and Linux it just feels like they are less precise. I guess it is the ‘it’s hard to explain’ factor that makes it hard to replicate?
- itsjwala 6y agoyes, gestures and accuracy. I am using mac at work and reaching out to windows, scrolling, zooming etc is much better than my home ubuntu dell laptop.
- pcr910303 6y agoIt’s about cursor acceleration — macOS uses an acceleration scheme so that you can get from one’s end to the other in one swipe if it’s fast enough — if the swipe is slow, the cursor becomes more precise and slower. I’m not due how it is in Linux, but last time I tried running Ubuntu on my 2017 MBP, It wasn’t possible to move from edge to edge in one swipe.