[jeroenhd]

It really depends on driver support. The Synaptic touch pads I've used have always worked great with gestures and such (under Wayland, which is still too buggy on my current hardware, sadly). Precision and responsiveness have always been great.

On a friends laptop, the touchpad was absolutely atrocious. Also a Synaptic touchpad, which worked just as well on Windows, but on Linux it seemingly had defaulted back to a virtual PS/2 touchpad without even two finger support, let alone normal multi touch.

This project is definitely helping applications and compatible hardware get better, but I think the biggest issue is still the lack of proper driver support from major manufacturers like Synaptic. Another issue is the fact that X11 and multi touch just don't mix, the protocol isn't good for it. I firmly believe the future is Wayland but I'm currently stuck with X and probably will be for a while because my problems are caused by Nvidia drivers combined with a laptop mux chip, two famously hard to solve problems as an end user.