[Calamityjanitor]

Maybe I'm unlucky with my popOS distro but I don't understand everyone here saying their linux trackpad is as good as a mac one.

When I two finger scroll on a mac, the content smoothly matches the movement of my finger. When I two finger scroll on linux it scrolls, but emulates a notched mouse wheel, with definite steps and no momentum. Some window management gestures worked on gnome, but as I noticed when trying to get four finger virtual desktop switching, you do the gesture then a command is run. On Mac the gesture animation starts as soon as your fingers start doing it, matching your speed and movement.

It's cool that I can map any gesture to whatever command I want, but it is very far from a smooth and responsive touchpad experience. My uneducated guess is that certain things in the linux UI stack only operate in mouse actions and have no mechanism for passing on multitouch gestures?

[smoldesu]

PopOS doesn't use Wayland yet, so it can't benefit from any silky-smooth 1:1 trackpad gestures (yet). It's on the roadmap probably, but only GNOME and KDE-based systems have implimented 'complete' gesture support.