[NayamAmarshe]

Since 2018, Linux Touchpad landscape has changed drastically. I remember how bad the situation was before 2018, no gestures, no accurate precision, pretty inferior.

After Touchegg came, everything kinda changed. Gnome and KDE introduced native gestures and it has boosted the adoption of Linux on laptops.

I hope we also get zoom capabilities in Chromium and Firefox and smooth scroll capabilities. Other than that, I do not miss anything from Windows or MacOS, it's all great!

PS: I have Touchegg config files readily available for better gestures on Linux:

https://github.com/NayamAmarshe/ZorinGestures

https://github.com/NayamAmarshe/ToucheggKDE

[xtracto]

I recently I stalled the latest version of Linux Mint on an 2013 macbook pro.

The touchpad feeling is slightly off, choppy I would say (it gets kind of "stuck") . I also tried to setup 3 and 4 finger gestures to switch desktops similar to OSX. There are two linux libraries that achieve that. One didn't work AT ALL and the other kind of works: it sends the signal, but for some reason it takes some time to change desktop. While doing the ctrl+alt+arrow works smoothly.

I use it OK but I am sad that's the state of the art I 2023.

[smoldesu]

Are you on x11 or Wayland? All animations will be choppy on x11; it's not your Trackpad's fault, but your window server.

If you have compatible hardware, try a Wayland-based system and see if that fixes the smoothness for you. It's completely possible to get 60fps 1:1 touchpad gestures on most laptops that have come out in the past decade.

[NayamAmarshe]

Maybe the MacBook drivers are not great? I use it on an HP laptop and I have no complaints.