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Re:Bored? How about trying a Linux speed run? by mschuster91 on Sunday April 12, 2020 @05:13AM (#22846927)
To make stuff worse, Elantech/Synaptics feature-gate their drivers... I have had laptops where I put a trackpad driver from some totally different laptop and suddenly I'd have a lot more gestures.

But no matter what, two finger scrolling and zooming won't ever be as smooth and "step free" under Windows/Linux... once experienced, cannot be missed.

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Re:Bored? How about trying a Linux speed run? by idle_zealot on Sunday April 12, 2020 @05:53AM (#22847075)
>But no matter what, two finger scrolling and zooming won't ever be as smooth and "step free" under Windows/Linux

That's not true. I'm not sure exactly what's changed but when running Firefox with the Wayland backend I've found that scrolling is continuous.

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Re:Bored? How about trying a Linux speed run? by auscompgeek on Sunday April 12, 2020 @08:09AM (#22847691)
I'm still using Firefox on XWayland (because of the subtle bugs in the Wayland backend), but you can also get continuous scrolling on X using XInput2 as well (set the environment variable MOZ_USE_XINPUT2=1).
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