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There are so many legit problems to be sad about, but he ruins the list by bloating it with like 20-30% crap/bullshit entries. Why? Would be so much better and

There are so many legit problems to be sad about, but he ruins the list by bloating it with like 20-30% crap/bullshit entries. Why? Would be so much better and more productive if he kept it tight. He actually doesn't even have the issue that got me the most when I switched back from OSX (I hadn't been using Linux on laptops). libinput is developed by one guy, so instead of real usability testing, he just sort of plays around locally and asks a few friends to record inputs so he can analyse them. This results in really terrible defaults for the trackpad acceleration and clicking, that I could only override with xinput commands that referenced the device IDs, but the device IDs would often change on reboot.

ornornor 6y ago
You might have already solved that since then, but you can also add config files to /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-mytrackpad.conf and that will set the properties you want for libinput devices at startup. Works on my xubuntu so I can disable the trackpad and use only the track point with custom acceleration and sensitivity values.
- kasabali 6y ago
  I'm not the parent but when I go through the trouble of creating a custom config I go one step further and switch to using synaptics driver instead of libinput.
m463 6y ago
OTOH he does have some things coded in green. But yeah, it looks overly critical. It might seem less biased if there was a subsystem-by-subsystem scorecard, showing positives and "needs work" items side-by-side.
- itvision 6y ago
  > It might seem less biased if there was a subsystem-by-subsystem scorecard, showing positives and "needs work" items side-by-side. And then we'll have wars on what's serious and what's not. Year, right. :-)
itvision 6y ago
> by bloating it with like 20-30% crap/bullshit entries. There's a comments section below the article and the author actually listens to the input and updates the article when something is no longer true.
- Pedrit0 6y ago
  Or bans you :-) How funny so many people point out the subjectivity of your article huh ? Facts, facts, facts... Pedrito :-)
  - itvision 6y ago
    For the past four weeks a single person has been banned because he was obsessed with the Linux kernel and dismissed the entire article because of that. Nice you've discovered that while overlooking the other 3000 comments. That's called selective attention and confirmation bias, sir.
    - Pedrit0 6y ago
      A single one :) Sure about that ? ^^ But nice to hear that dismissing your article leads to ban. Indeed this is what I experienced myself...
      - itvision 6y ago
        If you're dismissing something with prejudice (yep, the last banned commentator just didn't have anything valuable to add and he was simply obsessed with the Linux kernel and terminology though the article explicitly states it's about Linux for/on the desktop) it's not even clear why you choose to comment upon in the first place. Dismiss the whole website then! Don't visit it ever ;-) Show your total indifference. :-) This pesky horrible Web 1.0 website filled with FUD from an unknown Joe doesn't deserve your time. 2 million visitors over 10 years? That's what google.com sees in a few minutes. Cited and quoted all over the web? Still doesn't make it an authority. Almost everything on it is either wrong or exaggerated. Aren't you smiling and laughing yet? You must be ;-)

ornornor 6y ago

You might have already solved that since then, but you can also add config files to /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-mytrackpad.conf and that will set the properties you want for libinput devices at startup. Works on my xubuntu so I can disable the trackpad and use only the track point with custom acceleration and sensitivity values.

kasabali 6y ago
I'm not the parent but when I go through the trouble of creating a custom config I go one step further and switch to using synaptics driver instead of libinput.

m463 6y ago

OTOH he does have some things coded in green. But yeah, it looks overly critical. It might seem less biased if there was a subsystem-by-subsystem scorecard, showing positives and "needs work" items side-by-side.

itvision 6y ago
> It might seem less biased if there was a subsystem-by-subsystem scorecard, showing positives and "needs work" items side-by-side. And then we'll have wars on what's serious and what's not. Year, right. :-)

itvision 6y ago

> by bloating it with like 20-30% crap/bullshit entries. There's a comments section below the article and the author actually listens to the input and updates the article when something is no longer true.

Pedrit0 6y ago
Or bans you :-) How funny so many people point out the subjectivity of your article huh ? Facts, facts, facts... Pedrito :-)
- itvision 6y ago
  For the past four weeks a single person has been banned because he was obsessed with the Linux kernel and dismissed the entire article because of that. Nice you've discovered that while overlooking the other 3000 comments. That's called selective attention and confirmation bias, sir.
  - Pedrit0 6y ago
    A single one :) Sure about that ? ^^ But nice to hear that dismissing your article leads to ban. Indeed this is what I experienced myself...
    - itvision 6y ago
      If you're dismissing something with prejudice (yep, the last banned commentator just didn't have anything valuable to add and he was simply obsessed with the Linux kernel and terminology though the article explicitly states it's about Linux for/on the desktop) it's not even clear why you choose to comment upon in the first place. Dismiss the whole website then! Don't visit it ever ;-) Show your total indifference. :-) This pesky horrible Web 1.0 website filled with FUD from an unknown Joe doesn't deserve your time. 2 million visitors over 10 years? That's what google.com sees in a few minutes. Cited and quoted all over the web? Still doesn't make it an authority. Almost everything on it is either wrong or exaggerated. Aren't you smiling and laughing yet? You must be ;-)