• woelkchen@lemmy.worldOP
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    Nah, it’s a bad default taught by Windows users on crap touchpads. Proper clickpads are vastly superior.

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      you may be surprised to know that crap touch-pads are the majority of touchpads and even moreso in the future since old thinkpads are slowly going away

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        you may be surprised to know that crap touch-pads are the majority of touchpads and even moreso in the future since old thinkpads are slowly going away

        Companies like Asus and HP ship proper touchpads.

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          Some of those are still terrible. Compare any of them to my 2011 macbook and they will loose badly

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            1 year ago

            300€ HP 255 G8 works very well, the physical buttons below the pad feel like they’ll fall apart with every press as they are only hinged somewhere in the middle

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      1 year ago

      Yeah I love moving my finger away from the middle of the touchpad and down to the clicky-thingy just to then move it back to the middle of the touchpad. I think tap-to-click is just faster while having no real disadvantages

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        Yeah I love moving my finger away from the middle of the touchpad and down to the clicky-thingy just to then move it back to the middle of the touchpad.

        That’s not a real clickpad then. Proper ones you can just press down everywhere. Even the type cover of my Surface has a that.

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          Oh I thought you meant separate mouse-buttons. I still think tap-to-click is superior, but as always: if you like to click then go and configure your system to click