>what's easily the best trackpad hardware/driver combination on the market. I've had a very positive experience with Synaptics on Linux. 99% of the more "advan

>what's easily the best trackpad hardware/driver combination on the market. I've had a very positive experience with Synaptics on Linux. 99% of the more "advanced" features that people are likely to care about (two-finger scroll, two- and three-finger tap, vertical/horizontal scroll margins, corner hot buttons, etc.) are fully supported and easily configured with a simple file, and there is even a GUI to do it for you. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Touchpad_Synaptics#Advanced_configuration https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Touchpad_Synaptics#Adva... >Linux's poorer multitouch handling is enough on its own to disrupt their workflow. I never do any serious work on a multitouch device, so I can't speak to this. It's something I would never even think to worry about because it wouldn't affect my workflow. >A combination of improved desktop polish and spending effort on optimising developer workflows I'm not sold on this. "Polish" is completely subjective, but I think modern Linux desktops are quite polished. Take Mint Cinnamon, Netrunner, and Elementary for example. We've certainly come a long way since the era Gnome 2 and KDE 3. I imagine that's what a lot of non-Linux techies think of when they hear "Linux desktop". As far as "developer workflow", I really don't think the author made a strong case as to how Apple wins in this category. Seems about as subjective as polish. What I'd like to know is which platform more developers would use if prestige and peer pressure were completely removed from the equation.