Why do touchpads exist? First thing I do is disable them.
Do power users (which tend to use Linux) really use those things?
Do power users (which tend to use Linux) really use those things?
1) Obviously such efforts will help non-power users as well. A lot of people use touchpads.
2) Yes, power users also use touchpad. Duh.
They also provide inputs that are themselves unreliable and inaccurate. You're better off controlling the cursor with a trackpoint which also means you don't need to move your hands off the keyboard.
No they don’t get in the way of using keyboard and no they’re not unreliable or inaccurate.
I use MacBook keyboard + touchpad for almost a decade without external mouse and keyboard on purpose and I do 120 wpm on a on 2017 MacBook Pro with a 1st generation butterfly keyboard without touchpad getting into my way.
Only way I found to make this useable is to treat it as a SSH server I connect to remotely.
Its touchpad certainly wasn't anything special, it's probably worse than the non-Mac average, only ever clicked correctly in some parts, before quickly getting stuck forever.
1. it never clicks when it isn't supposed to
2. its acceleration curves are beautiful
3. it's always accurate when you intend to click on a particular pixel
4. there is no interaction between keyboard and touchpad (e.g. on Linux there is a "disable while typing" feature which disables the touchpad only because the touchpad experience is not perfect, therefore completing disabling it while typing is better than refraining)
Although I don't buy into the whole gesture stuff. I just want the basics.