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Link for reference: > Bingxing Wang's awesome driver[0]. Windows Precision Touchpad Implementation for Apple MacBook family/Magic Trackpad 2 [0] https://gith

Link for reference: > Bingxing Wang's awesome driver[0]. Windows Precision Touchpad Implementation for Apple MacBook family/Magic Trackpad 2 [0] https://github.com/imbushuo/mac-precision-touchpad https://github.com/imbushuo/mac-precision-touchpad

refulgentis 3y ago
Karmakaze is very apt ;) — taking the quote, which is a link, and extracting it to a comment with the link "for reference", but really it's to harvest karma from people who didn't read the article
- fragmede 3y ago
  And then, you pointing it out so you can get in on the karma train as well! And then this comment, made just for the points, which are worth so much that I'm trading in my cheap car for a flashy new one next week!
- karmakaze 3y ago
  Akshully.. it's my way of bookmarking/remembering this for later when I'll want it again And thought it might be useful to highlight (or discuss).
DiabloD3 3y ago
I was using that for years. Apple hates their own customers for not having written that themselves, and forcing us to use some half-assed driver included in Bootcamp that made the whole thing seem state-of-the-art circa Windows 98. That said, my MBPr eventually phased out of Windows support (Intel GPU drivers aged out; more and more apps were losing/removing acceleration features due to (unfixed/unfixable) driver and hw bugs, didn't meet Win11 CPU requirements but ran Win11 fine), it now runs Linux with Waylandized KDE; Linux supports the entire feature set of these trackpads without any work). But yeah, imbushuo is doing some serious work and deserves recognition.
- wkat4242 3y ago
  I always thought apple provided crap drivers to make macOS look better. They also drop driver support way too quickly and go out of their way to block boot Camp installations with Windows versions that are newer than they 'support' (whatever little their support is actually worth)
  - DiabloD3 3y ago
    Bootcamp is a joke. Every Intel Mac runs a complete EFI impl based on the stock Intel one, and can just boot Windows without Bootcamp. Also the only way to install using GPT, as Bootcamp's bootloader hides the GPT header (and OSX uses 2 out of the 4 MBR partition slots) and forces Window to use "legacy single partition mode", which means no Bitlockering C:\ as the EFI boot partition (required since Vista, no matter if it is a EFI/GPT or Legacy Bios/MBR machine) is where ntldr lives now (same way in the MBR days you had /boot on a different unecrypted partition, so you can boot linux, load the initrd, and then unlock the root partition); Windows uses 3 partitions, EFI boot, C:\, and the recovery partition. Once I realized that, I blanked the entire disk, and purged OSX forever. I made that decision 10 years ago (the MBPr is still alive!), and I never looked back.
superdisk 3y ago
I went to college with that dude, neat to see his work getting recognized.

refulgentis 3y ago

Karmakaze is very apt ;) — taking the quote, which is a link, and extracting it to a comment with the link "for reference", but really it's to harvest karma from people who didn't read the article

fragmede 3y ago
And then, you pointing it out so you can get in on the karma train as well! And then this comment, made just for the points, which are worth so much that I'm trading in my cheap car for a flashy new one next week!
karmakaze 3y ago
Akshully.. it's my way of bookmarking/remembering this for later when I'll want it again And thought it might be useful to highlight (or discuss).

DiabloD3 3y ago

I was using that for years. Apple hates their own customers for not having written that themselves, and forcing us to use some half-assed driver included in Bootcamp that made the whole thing seem state-of-the-art circa Windows 98. That said, my MBPr eventually phased out of Windows support (Intel GPU drivers aged out; more and more apps were losing/removing acceleration features due to (unfixed/unfixable) driver and hw bugs, didn't meet Win11 CPU requirements but ran Win11 fine), it now runs Linux with Waylandized KDE; Linux supports the entire feature set of these trackpads without any work). But yeah, imbushuo is doing some serious work and deserves recognition.

wkat4242 3y ago
I always thought apple provided crap drivers to make macOS look better. They also drop driver support way too quickly and go out of their way to block boot Camp installations with Windows versions that are newer than they 'support' (whatever little their support is actually worth)
- DiabloD3 3y ago
  Bootcamp is a joke. Every Intel Mac runs a complete EFI impl based on the stock Intel one, and can just boot Windows without Bootcamp. Also the only way to install using GPT, as Bootcamp's bootloader hides the GPT header (and OSX uses 2 out of the 4 MBR partition slots) and forces Window to use "legacy single partition mode", which means no Bitlockering C:\ as the EFI boot partition (required since Vista, no matter if it is a EFI/GPT or Legacy Bios/MBR machine) is where ntldr lives now (same way in the MBR days you had /boot on a different unecrypted partition, so you can boot linux, load the initrd, and then unlock the root partition); Windows uses 3 partitions, EFI boot, C:\, and the recovery partition. Once I realized that, I blanked the entire disk, and purged OSX forever. I made that decision 10 years ago (the MBPr is still alive!), and I never looked back.

superdisk 3y ago

I went to college with that dude, neat to see his work getting recognized.