I use a MacBook most of the time and incidentally Linux/Windows systems, and IMO the problem is not the Linux touchpad drivers are bad as such, but the way the

I use a MacBook most of the time and incidentally Linux/Windows systems, and IMO the problem is not the Linux touchpad drivers are bad as such, but the way the system as a whole reacts to its input. Since macOS uses GPU-backed windows all interaction animations run highly responsive at 60fps. Scrolling through a webpage or navigating to another windows with 'expose' or just swiping between workspaces is really instantaneous. Also, try swiping 'back' in Safari and you immediately see the current page moving a bit out of the way, exposing the previous page. If you decide you don't want to go back you just let go of the trackpad and the action reverts. Applications implementing their own rendering (Firefox/Chrome and other non-native toolkits) do not have that quality consistently. Same hardware with Linux or Windows 10 feels completely different. Windows profits from GPU optimisations, but the UI situation is a mess. Every Linux distribution's GUI (X11 _and_ Wayland) I've worked with has even more noticeable lag between user input and output.