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Bored? Write a touchpad driver based on libinput which gives you identical mouse acceleration between Macbook trackpads and linux trackpads.
As someone who can't be bothered to pay the Apple tax, what does the Macbook trackpad do that others don't? My experience with different mouse acceleration configs (Windows, Synaptics, Linux) has only been negative.
Bored? Write a touchpad driver based on libinput which gives you identical mouse acceleration between Macbook trackpads and linux trackpads.
As someone who can't be bothered to pay the Apple tax, what does the Macbook trackpad do that others don't? My experience with different mouse acceleration configs (Windows, Synaptics, Linux) has only been negative.
Simply put the touchpad on the 16" Mac feels like its from the future, recognition is perfect, multi-finger gestures are consistent and always recorded so you can flip around between workspaces and after a day or two it becomes so ingrained that it gets out the way and you stop even thinking about it, it becomes fluent in a way other touchpads don't.
On a recent Thinkpad with Linux I just use the TrackPoint, I've never gotten the touchpad to be more than merely acceptable.
Frankly I still prefer working on my Thinkpad at home on my stuff but the touchpad on the Mac has ruined every other touchpad I interact with entirely.
Generally I like the Macbook and OSX as someone who hadn't ever touched it til a few months ago is a pleasant OS for development, there isn't anything in there I really hate, it feels like a linux distro with a nice DE/UI mostly.
Oh and I really like iTerm2, that's a really nice piece of software.
> Who knows how far down the stack this could go? Seems to be like the obvious initial way to up the ante would be to get rid of the compiler. How would you go about bootstrapping your way out if all you had was the Linux kernel, glibc, and the Bourne shell?
The stage0 bootstrap is seriously interesting: https://github.com/oriansj/stage0 It starts with a system without firmware and an OS, just a <=1KB hex monitor that assembles special hex0 programs. In the next stage it bootstraps a more comfortable assembler. Then it uses this assembler to bootstrap a small C compiler written in assembly. And then it uses this C compiler to compile a C compiler written in C. All the wa…
I wonder how many of the upper layers have cyclic build dependencies. I know Scala and sbt do but what else?
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As someone who can't be bothered to pay the Apple tax, what does the Macbook trackpad do that others don't? My experience with different mouse acceleration configs (Windows, Synaptics, Linux) has only been negative.
I don’t have a clue about _why_, but I know from using macOS and Linux on mbp that whereas the touchpad basically works in macOS, it totally doesn’t function in Linux! :( In Linux, wrists keep triggering touch events as you type. Screens start scrolling, focus goes to random things, and everyone swears. You end up having to hold your hands right over the keyboard in a very unnatural way to avoid accidental mouse inte…
Enable the option to sleep the touchpad when the user starts typing.
Bored? Write a touchpad driver based on libinput which gives you identical mouse acceleration between Macbook trackpads and linux trackpads.
As someone who can't be bothered to pay the Apple tax, what does the Macbook trackpad do that others don't? My experience with different mouse acceleration configs (Windows, Synaptics, Linux) has only been negative.
A similar sort of exercise might be to just install Arch Linux to a working desktop or some other use case. Arch Linux puts responsibility for the install on your shoulders based on your needs and decisions. In the end, you get a VERY up-to-date installation of linux, without needless bloat, and it stays that way due to rolling updates.
> ... just install Arch Linux to a working desktop ...
How do you do that when you have:
> ... a box that has a couple of hard drives and a working network connection. HD #1 is blank. HD #2 has ... bootloader, kernel, C library and compiler, that sort of thing. There's a network connection of some sort, and that's about it.
> There are no editors and nothing more advanced than 'cat' to read files. You don't have jed, joe, emacs, pico, vi, or ed (eat flaming death). Don't even think about X. telnet, nc, ftp, ncftp, lftp, wget, curl, lynx, links? Luxury! Gone. Perl, Python and Ruby? Nope.
So, how do you install Arch Linux?
Bored? Write a touchpad driver based on libinput which gives you identical mouse acceleration between Macbook trackpads and linux trackpads.
What's wrong with the synaptics driver? It's the first thing I installed over stock Ubuntu, to make it even tolerable. Whereas with libinput, after only minutes of use, I noticed I actively avoid using the touchpad, subconsciously bracing for pain and frustration in advance. Is there a reason that libinput is so horrible? I'm not even sure if it's only gnome's/tweak tool's anemic settings dialog, or fundamental lack…
> The xf86-input-evdev driver is in maintenance mode at this point. The last commit was in May 2018 and, since the 2.10.0 release four years ago, there have been a total of 19 commits. It is still shipped in RHEL 8 in order to support "crazy devices" that don't work otherwise. Similarly, xf86-input-synaptics had a 1.9.0 release in 2016 and has had nine commits since. It is effectively dead and all touchpads should be working with libinput at this point. Since libinput took over from xf86-input-synaptics three years ago, no one has stepped up to say they want to continue maintaining it, Hutterer said.
Bored? Write a touchpad driver based on libinput which gives you identical mouse acceleration between Macbook trackpads and linux trackpads.
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IIRC Linux and Windows drivers turn trackpad events into mouse events so by the time the OS sees the movement there is no touchpad info. Apple with tighter integration delivers the actual touchpad movement data and not a faked mouse event. Windows 10 has had work done in this area too but not sure the details.
To make stuff worse, Elantech/Synaptics feature-gate their drivers... I have had laptops where I put a trackpad driver from some totally different laptop and suddenly I'd have a lot more gestures. But no matter what, two finger scrolling and zooming won't ever be as smooth and "step free" under Windows/Linux... once experienced, cannot be missed.