Am I the only one who prefers the nipples on thinkpads?
nipples are great if you want to not move away from home row.
for casual use a touch pad is better and for gaming a mouse is better.
Linux touchpad like a Macbook: goal worth pursuing?
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Re: Linux touchpad like a Macbook: goal worth pursuing?
#102Earlier quoted context omitted.
Really depends on their comfort/paranoia level. If the device is taken out of their sight for more than a few minutes, they'd be highly suspicious. More so if you are crossing borders of countries known to be hostile.
> Really depends on their comfort/paranoia level. If the device is taken out of their sight for more than a few minutes, they'd be highly suspicious. If your expected adversary is a nation-state intelligence agency, what do you expect to do? Take your laptop with you everywhere you go, all the time? Leave in your apartment for a theoretical attacker to execute an evil maid attack on it? FDE is highly useful against o…
>Take your laptop with you everywhere you go, all the time?
With a small laptop, this is a very small problem.
>Leave in your apartment for a theoretical attacker to execute an evil maid attack on it?
Security cameras?
With very basic training anyone can maintain good physical opsec, the much harder part is keeping your software secure.
Re: Linux touchpad like a Macbook: goal worth pursuing?
#103Yes, please do! I've spent some time researching this as well, and to me it seems like the author has missed one thing; the Mac touchpad hardware is so much better than other touchpad hardware. (As I understand it, the competition is barred from making similar touchpads due to patents) I have been running Linux on MacBook Pros for many years, and the touchpad is a constant source of disappointment. For the effort to…
> As I understand it, the competition is barred from making similar touchpads due to patents I'm unwilling to believe that Apple discovered the one and only way to make good Trackpad hardware.
I agree, which I why I specifically said "similar" rather than "as good" or "better". I'm not impressed by competing touchpads.
Re: Linux touchpad like a Macbook: goal worth pursuing?
#104Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think maybe this is the problem I would pay $100,000 to solve / improve? https://imgur.com/a/7axkPSW
Switch to using numbers for the quick links and you can type the text of the link to narrow down the search for the quick link.
And I also just realised how link filtering works by typing the first letter to only see some. So that is pretty swift also. Thanks for this.
Re: Linux touchpad like a Macbook: goal worth pursuing?
#105This is something I've been wanting for a long time and I'd definitely donate money to support such a project!
Re: Linux touchpad like a Macbook: goal worth pursuing?
#106I have been using 12" MacBooks since they came out because I live out of a backpack and travel a lot. I cannot find anything comparable in terms of size/weight/battery and build quality. Especially the trackpad, nothing is remotely close. Otherwise I'd get that and put Arch on it. People complain Apple is expensive, not so sure. The TCO may actually be less because of the high resale value. It is also more convenient…
> I cannot find anything comparable in terms of size/weight/battery and build quality. Especially the trackpad, nothing is remotely close. Otherwise I'd get that and put Arch on it.
Arch on a macbook is a great experience
Re: Linux touchpad like a Macbook: goal worth pursuing?
#107Earlier quoted context omitted.
Can you tell me more about "curl-to-bash"? Setting up my mac can be a matter of days and I hate it.
I think they mean the classic install process of "curl -s | bash", used to download and then execute a bash script. The real question in my opinion is what kind of tools can fully set up an entire environment, including sessions, from a bash script? Homebrew only gets you so far.
I haven't played with it on my mac, but I've been headed down the path of setting up my environment with Ansible. I have one script that bootstraps Ansible, and it does the rest. That said, I haven't managed to get everything in there yet. It requires discipline to never set things up without putting them in configuration management (same as if you're configuring servers).
Re: Linux touchpad like a Macbook: goal worth pursuing?
#108What I find the biggest advantage is the hardware (as another poster here does), but not only due to its superior capabilities in gesture recognition. I have yet to find a non-Macbook touchpad which is: - decently sized: all Windows/Linux laptops I have encountered have ridiculously small touchpads, some not even a quarter of a Macbook touchpad in size. I have huge hands, tiny touchpads are awful when two fingers are…
afaik, dell / lenovo uses glass (at least on the xps / x1 that I have). Lenovo has them covered in a matte finish of some sort, but it's glass.
Re: Linux touchpad like a Macbook: goal worth pursuing?
#109One of the main reasons I stopped using Linux is the touchpad! It is horrible out of the box experience and the insult to injury is the lack of no good user interface to even set anything. You have to screw around with libinput or xinput with zero documentation on both parts and hope you will hit a sweet spot eventually and hope that any future updates won't break it. I am way past of the tinkerer phase where I would…
We are all talking about desktop?
Ubuntu desktop is annoying IMO. Server is the only linux worth running. Windows has a superior desktop experience.
Ive made serious attempts to use linux desktops since ubuntu 7 and the annoyance factor of getting things to 'work' and the hostile community is really offputting.
Re: Linux touchpad like a Macbook: goal worth pursuing?
#110Earlier quoted context omitted.
Can you tell me more about "curl-to-bash"? Setting up my mac can be a matter of days and I hate it.
I think they mean the classic install process of "curl -s | bash", used to download and then execute a bash script. The real question in my opinion is what kind of tools can fully set up an entire environment, including sessions, from a bash script? Homebrew only gets you so far.
Possibly a complete image of the disk. dd'ing from an SSD with trim gets you zeros for the unused sectors, otherwise write a big file with zeros on the remaining space.
This data compresses quite well and gets you all the hidden and extra attributes an rsync might miss. That would be my unix-y approach.