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The touchpad on my current gen Dell XPS 13 is superb on a stock Ubuntu install. I'd love to know how much of the "bad touchpad" reputation that Linux has is dow
by wldlyinaccurate 6y ago
The touchpad on my current gen Dell XPS 13 is superb on a stock Ubuntu install. I'd love to know how much of the "bad touchpad" reputation that Linux has is down to low quality hardware versus software support.
- frozenport 6y agoYeah tbe dude wants the Apple experience that many find unpalatable.
- aktuel 6y agoI'm also very happy with my xps 13 touchpad under Linux. I think it's on par our even better than under Windows. However I never used Mac touchpads.
- ekianjo 6y agoI guess it matters for folks who come from the Mac world and expect all trackpads to be like on their Macs.
- brabel 6y agoHave you tried a Mac touchpad? I use both a Dell XPS13 (Ubuntu from factory) at home, and a MacBook Pro at work. The Mac's touchpad is miles ahead... and that's even after I spent a couple of days messing with libinput settings to make the Dell's touchpad more acceptable (it's fine now, just not really close to the precision of the Mac's touchpad).
- notechback 6y agoIn what ways is it ahead? I'm quite satisfied with the touchpad on Linux, so really wondering what I'm missing. On the other hand touchscreen is really disappointing on Linux (Ubuntu), just not a smooth experience at all for me.
- pmx 6y agoIt's really quite difficult to quantify what's actually different. It feels really precise without being "flicky", using it feels very natural and you sort of forget about the touchpad and just will the cursor on the screen to do as you wish.
- filleduchaos 6y agoI've always struggled to articulate why I prefer the MacBook's trackpad to every other trackpad I've used, and I think you've hit on something with that last sentence. It feels so natural that I really just don't ever think about it, my brain skips straight to the actual interface I'm using it to manipulate. I get the same feeling with high vs low quality touchscreens (e.g. my phone vs some ATMs), and especially with gaming controllers. With a good, ergonomic controller I sort of forget about the shape and weight of the controller in my hands after a while; my entire sense of it narrows down to the buttons/triggers/joysticks.
- pcr910303 6y agoMost likely its cursor acceleration. macOS dynamically adjusts the cursor movements based on the user swipe speed which makes it feel both precise and fast. Last time I used Linux on my MBP, libinput was more... linear.
- throwbackThurs 6y agoGotta agree with this. MacBook touchpads are phenomenal compared to the competition
- bzb3 6y agoThat reputation comes from people who switch from Windows to Linux and see the quality diminish substantially. That's hardly a hardware problem.
- ubercow13 6y agoI switched from Windows to Linux on one laptop just to get better touchpad feel...
- modzu 6y agothe xps i tried a couple of years ago was not even close to mbp quality, it felt 10 years behind
- surfsvammel 6y agoAgreed. The Mac Touchpads are light years better. I’m not a hardware not drivers guy: so my naïve gut feeling is just: ‘how hard can it be?’. I’d love to contribute to this project, but I’m not sure how.
- Tepix 6y agoI have the XPS 13 9350 and i like the touchpad as well. There‘s always room for a little improvement but during daily use it‘s not that i‘m annoyed by the touchpad. Not at all.
- dastx 6y agoGot a Dell XPS 15, and the touchpad trashes every other laptop I've tried, but in my opinion, it still doesn't even come close to MBP's trackpad.