Re:Framework Laptop 16. Upgraded!
by kibwen on Tuesday August 26, 2025 @12:12PM
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Hardware-wise, no, I've had plenty of PC trackpads that are better than Apple trackpads. But MacOS tends to have better built-in support for advanced gestures, which seem to be impossible on Windows and must be manually configured on Linux (but gives you enormous power once you do).
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GNOME on Wayland has lots of useful gestures out of the box. It's part of the DE though, so lots of DEs don't have them.
Using Gnome (for whatever reason), I'm used to two finger scrolling and three finger swiping just working by default.
Apple's palm rejection is also top tier, though other systems have been getting better. My current Dell seems fine so far, but at my last company the Dell I had was almost unusable due to my cursor just teleporting around my document randomly if my hands got too close to the trackpad (which is where they have to be to type).
Not sure if it's a hardware (Dell) or software (Ubuntu) improvement, but thank god.