[pintxo]

REAL Thinkpad users will only ever use the little red stick and disable the trackpad (just joking). But it‘s worth a try, takes a couple days to get used to first.

[pjmlp]

Real Thinkpad user here, yep using that little red stick since 2006, when I got my first one.

Really feels a bit weird on other laptops, although on those that have two finger gestures it is bearable, or I just end up plugging an external mouse.

[jack_pp]

Thinkpad user here, on Linux, with disabled trackpad. Vim and i3 make it almost useless

[pintxo]

Positive side-effect of a disabled trackpad, everyone trying to show you something on your Thinkpad by taking command will quickly stop it once they have no control over the mouse.

[robrtsql]

They'd also probably stop when they saw you were running i3 and couldn't figure out how to pull up a web browser.

[silon42]

Not joking; I'd like to have a button/key to disable the touchpad that some gaming laptops have.

[ptah]

you mean the nipple?

[stilley2]

As always, there's a relevant xkcd https://xkcd.com/243/