Re:Apple acknowledges keyboard problems with recent MacBooks
by seba_dos1 on Thursday March 28, 2019 @12:24PM
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Macbooks have a pretty standard touchpads, "force touch" aside. It's just a matter of proper software and configuration. Of course gesture support in software isn't comparable in any way, but my Lenovo Yoga 2 Pro touchpad on GNU/Linux generally feels better than Macbook's ones or Magic Trackpad 2 on macOS.
Also, I've got some non-jailbroken iPhone for development and I have no issues with installing ipa's on it from GNU/Linux. I didn't need more though, so haven't tested anything else, but working app installer makes me think that other simpler things should work too :P
Re:Apple acknowledges keyboard problems with recent MacBooks
by scarface74 on Friday March 29, 2019 @07:52PM
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So besides force touch and software support there is no difference....
Isn’t that kind of big deal?
Re:Apple acknowledges keyboard problems with recent MacBooks
by seba_dos1 on Saturday March 30, 2019 @09:59AM
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Force touch? Hardly, it's a gimmick. The only "big deal" out of it is silent clicking, which is why I own Magic Trackpad 2, but not everyone will care about that.
Software support - well, yes, but it's within the application makers and power users reach to fix it. There's a common myth that "Apple touchpads work on magic", while in fact neither hardware nor the driver is so special. It's just the apps.
Oh, and any sort of ability to integrate or do anything with my iPhone (non-jailbroken) on my Linux machines would be a big plus.