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The trackpad on the X1 Carbon works phenomenally well on my unit running 12.04.

How well does multitouch work? Does two finger scrolling work properly? I have my mac set up to have a three finger swipe go back/forward in the browser history - would that sort of thing work properly?

I'm trying to keep in touch with the ultrabook scene, as I'd quite like my next computer to run linux. The trackpad not working super-well has been one of the things holding me back, as that's one of my favourite features on the mac.

Two-finger scrolling works great, but I've never had any success configuring three-finger gestures under X11 (on this laptop or any other). I used to be an aggressive user of those same gestures when I used OSX, but frankly around the Lion timeframe they started getting in my way more often than not.

Yeah, I'm still holding out on snow leopard. I don't really have a replacement option that I'd be completely comfortable with yet, although the linux ultrabooks seem to be getting pretty close these days.

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