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How about the touch pad? Is there any non Apple laptop where the touch pad works as well in Linux as the mbpro's in OS X?

I'm spoiled and use my mbpro without a mouse ... because I can. I'd like to switch away from Apple when I need a new laptop because of the emoji keyboard. But I'd also like to keep using the laptop without a mouse. Is that possible these days?




I had forgotten how terrible non-Mac track pads could be until I had to help my mom recover music on her Acer. It makes the entire laptop nearly unusable.


The Surface Book 2 track pad is pretty decent and customizable.


But that only runs Windows. If i switch, I'll switch to something that runs Linux properly.


Recent versions of libinput are good enough to where I find myself frustrated very rarely these days.




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