[amalgamated_inc]

I suspect that one issue is that you can buy REALLY cheap and terrible laptops and run Linux on them. You can't buy cheap Apple products. Therefore people compare the crappy touchpad from a $300 laptop with that of a $1,5000 MacBook or whatever they cost now. Obviously, that makes the Linux one look bad.

But the high-quality laptops that e.g. most devs on Linux use have had great touchpads for a long time.

[DennisP]

Not sure what you mean by "long time" but five or six years ago I bought a fairly expensive 17" laptop from System76 and the touchpad was atrocious. It was basically unusable, cursor jumped all over the place.