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I've been testing out various flavors of Linux (Ubuntu 20.04, Pop!OS, etc.) this past week on both a fairly new Thinkpad and a Macbook Pro and the trackpad expe

I've been testing out various flavors of Linux (Ubuntu 20.04, Pop!OS, etc.) this past week on both a fairly new Thinkpad and a Macbook Pro and the trackpad experience is horrible compared to Windows or MacOS. Things I've noticed: - Mouse jumps after thumb-clicking. - Thumb doesn't get ignored when doing certain combination actions (thumb + click and drag to select multiple items). - Scrolling isn't 'inertial' - Mousing around lacks some of the accelation/deceleration that makes getting around a screen easier. (bias: I spent a lot of time thinking about the mac touchpad and once wrote an app leveraging it's privateframework data). I'm really tempted to find time to help on this effort, but it likely requires getting another machine since I can't see myself living in linux full-time for a while.

Mikeb85 6y ago
Interesting list. Seems we use a touchpad differently because I don't use my thumb at all on it and don't like inertial scrolling or movement. > Scrolling isn't 'inertial' It seems different applications have different scrolling settings. I'm on Ubuntu, on Firefox there is inertial scrolling (smooth scrolling setting), on Chrome there isn't.
- chacha2 6y ago
  It's pretty poor though, try Gnome Web, which excels at it, and see how much more could be done.
ubercow13 6y ago
>- Mouse jumps after thumb-clicking. I get this one on Windows with my touchpad (with Microsoft's 'precision' driver) but not Linux. One that I don't like about the Macbook touchpad is that the cursor won't move for a short period after clicking, which makes it hard to click stuff quickly