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1. tomber+(OP)[view] [source] 2021-12-16 20:58:44
Actually, outside of having trouble disabling tap to click, I haven't had a ton of issues with the trackpad.

I also haven't had the Firefox rendering problems, but I think that might be because for the last Linux laptop I had, I specifically sought out a graphics card that was likely to not have any issues.

> I might learn C so I can look into making my own.

I've thought about that too. If I weren't on Apple now I probably would have already started on that, but the closest thing I've done to any kind of "driver" has been to make custom FUSE mount.

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2. tentac+Iy[view] [source] 2021-12-17 00:20:53
>>tomber+(OP)
> Actually, outside of having trouble disabling tap to click, I haven't had a ton of issues with the trackpad.

Ahh, interesting! Not sure why, but it seems that some people have a horrible experience with the trackpad on Linux, while others have a great time (from a quick observation, anyway).

As a dumb guess, maybe it's due to different drivers being used? It's exactly the same on Wayland and Linux, so I'm guessing it's happening a lot lower in the stack (I read something about libinput? Not sure where that lies at the moment.) Grr, so much to think about! Perhaps one day I'll have a much better trackpad...

> I also haven't had the Firefox rendering problems, but I think that might be because for the last Linux laptop I had, I specifically sought out a graphics card that was likely to not have any issues.

Ahh, what graphics card is that? I'm guessing it's not NVIDIA.

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3. tomber+yX[view] [source] [discussion] 2021-12-17 03:53:59
>>tentac+Iy
The trackpad was using the Synclient Synaptic driver. Don’t know if that helps.

In regards to the graphics card, it was an AMD card, in an Asus ROG laptop. I sold that laptop off a year ago so I don’t remember the card version.

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