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Re:Linux Touchpad Like MacBook Update: 2023 Progress on Smoo... by jeffbee on Tuesday March 05, 2024 @03:14PM (#39608653)
It's not a problem for Linux distributions that jettison all the GNU beliefs. ChromeOS has had perfect multitouch input with gestures for years. They ship opaque binaries from Synaptics or whomever and forget about the politics.
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Re:Linux Touchpad Like MacBook Update: 2023 Progress on Smoo... by zozbot234 on Tuesday March 05, 2024 @03:18PM (#39608706)
Synaptics touchpads on Linux used to support these features with a FLOSS driver, but this was abandoned when Linux distributions adopted libinput instead. https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Touchpad_Synaptics Note the amount of config options available.
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Re:Linux Touchpad Like MacBook Update: 2023 Progress on Smoo... by hedgehog on Tuesday March 05, 2024 @05:01PM (#39609667)
It's a little more than that, they then added subpixel and momentum scrolling support to Chrome that bypasses X11 and does something custom [1]. Integration problems like this one that require a bunch of coordination are harder to do in open source land.

1. https://github.com/dnschneid/crouton/issues/244

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