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Good news! It's in vanilla Ubuntu now.

The main holdup was Wayland - go get your Wintel machine and try booting up a Wayland session in KDE or GNOME. If your trackpad was manufactured with multitouch, chances are it will have gesture support. Any distro shipping GNOME 41-ish or Plasma >5.25 should have this by-default.

As for the feel... I'm gonna be honest, I don't notice any difference from my Mac. If anything, my Magic Trackpad has more gesture options on my KDE machine out-of-the-box. Don't knock it till you've tried it!




Erm well, I'm on Ubuntu 22.04 with Wayland and the touchpad is still crap :/

Worst thing is that I can't enable "tap to click" because the palm detection just doesn't work at all.


I have an external Magic Trackpad 2 running with Wayland/Ubuntu 22.04, and it works great.


Why Wayland? You get libinput on both Wayland and X11 and X11 has gestures since 21.1




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