Just find a way to run `synclient MaxTapTime=0` when your X session starts up, and you should be golden.  This just disables tapping the trackpad to click, similar to how a MacBook’s trackpad behaves.

I want his babies for this - I have just "lived with it" on every laptop for years simply because I was too lazy to dig into the hell of X and drivers and docs. But now I see the light