Is it Apple’s Magic Trackpad? If I dual-boot Windows (for work, I swear!) does it work equally as well across both?

  • @[email protected]
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    169 months ago

    I bought a used magic trackpad 1 to use on Linux. It works quite well out of the box including multi touch capabilities but sometimes if you do a lot of movement in one go it will lag behind. The newer ones can be used wired and use higher Bluetooth versions so that’s hopefully not an issue.

    One noticeable limitation for all is that they run at 90 Hz which is noticeable on a 144 Hz screen, but there aren’t really alternatives as far as I could find.

    • Ghoelian
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      9 months ago

      I have a magic trackpad 2 (maybe 3, not sure) and haven’t noticed any lagging issues. I mainly use it wired, but the times I did use it wirelessly I didn’t notice any lag either.

      Unfortunately I didn’t have gestures ootb, though that could be a KDE plasma thing, since they have touchpad gestures like two finger scroll and tap to click disabled by default as well.

      Setting up gestures using touchegg was easy enough though.

        • Ghoelian
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          19 months ago

          It does work wirelessly, but I’m not sure if it’s also stable long-term since I mostly use it wired.

          • Atemu
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            19 months ago

            I think you misread but that does answer my question too ;)

  • @beefsquatch
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    149 months ago

    Check out trackballs, for an alternative to trackpads!

  • Atemu
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    9 months ago

    Do you mean a USB trackpad for desktop use or an integrated one in a laptop?

    I’d also be interested in the former.

    • @[email protected]OP
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      9 months ago

      Sorry, I should have clarified: Bluetooth or USB-connected trackpad. I use a fancy mechanical keyboard so I need some other input device that isn’t my laptop’s integrated trackpad.

      • @[email protected]
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        19 months ago

        I’m looking for one of these too, have got very comfortable with my trackpad on my laptop with hyprland and gnome gestures, would like that on my PC too

  • @danhab99
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    29 months ago

    I really love my apple track pad on my Manjaro setup. It’s big and smooth and super comfortable. Nobody makes 3rd party USB track pads

  • @sederx
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    09 months ago

    Idk but I use a trackball instead

  • JackGreenEarth
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    -39 months ago

    The trackpad by default on my Asus Tuf Gaming laptop works fine. I wouldn’t buy Apple products in general as they’re usually overpriced for their functionality.