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I'd say it's the OS, and the drivers. I do use a Magic Trackpad 2 with Precision drivers on Windows 10 and ... it's as sluggish as my laptop native touchpad. G

by pjerem 5y ago

I'd say it's the OS, and the drivers. I do use a Magic Trackpad 2 with Precision drivers on Windows 10 and ... it's as sluggish as my laptop native touchpad. Gestures barely makes senses, it's lagging everywhere, while the same device on OSX allow smooth-as-butter(tm) interactions. I also found that OSX drivers have a nicer palm rejection feature where on Windows I frequently click with the palm of my hand. I had an interesting experience with the very latest Fedora/Gnome versions with the Magic Trackpad letting me guess that an important step towards good gestures support on linux is on the way.

smallstepforman 5y ago
I use MacBook Pro 11.3 (mid 2014) with Haiku OS, there are no device specific drivers for that OS, and it behaves the same as OSX. It’s most likely the firmware which exports a generic HID which does the “mapping”.
- sturza 5y ago
  i have the opposite experience. installed windows 10 on mbp 15 2014 and came back days later because of the trackpad being unusable(high expectations maybe)
- johnwalkr 5y ago
  The trackpad was improved in 2015, I think there might be less of a difference on a 2014 model.