You need a laptop with a big trackpad for it to become even slightly usable. Macs and some very expensive laptops have trackpads that I would deem good enough to be a mouse replacement for serious work.
That said, I find the gestures under Gnome so nice that I have switched my laptop over to Wayland despite the Nvidia GPU (I just switch back to X11 temporarily when it starts acting up, I run most stuff on the iGPU anyway) and I’ve actively looked into getting a trackpad for my computer. Unfortunately, the only desktop trackpad worth any salt seems to be the rather expensive Apple one.
I’ve started working on a relatively simple application to use any multitouch tablet as a trackpad (most existing solutions don’t implement multi touch or only do fake multitouch) but the Linux input API is rather obscure, with loads of magical constants and parameters without much explanation. I really wish I could just plug in an old iPad and use the smooth glass surface as an input method…
You need a laptop with a big trackpad for it to become even slightly usable. Macs and some very expensive laptops have trackpads that I would deem good enough to be a mouse replacement for serious work.
That said, I find the gestures under Gnome so nice that I have switched my laptop over to Wayland despite the Nvidia GPU (I just switch back to X11 temporarily when it starts acting up, I run most stuff on the iGPU anyway) and I’ve actively looked into getting a trackpad for my computer. Unfortunately, the only desktop trackpad worth any salt seems to be the rather expensive Apple one.
I’ve started working on a relatively simple application to use any multitouch tablet as a trackpad (most existing solutions don’t implement multi touch or only do fake multitouch) but the Linux input API is rather obscure, with loads of magical constants and parameters without much explanation. I really wish I could just plug in an old iPad and use the smooth glass surface as an input method…