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    1 year ago

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

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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

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            At lot of old laptops (including mine) have separate mouse buttons and tap-to-click. It was nice being able to use the separate mouse buttons when you didn’t want to risk jiggling the cursor while clicking. Unfortunately nowadays all touchpads have the buttons integrated with the touchpad.

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              ThinkPads still have real mouse buttons, at least. And some who copy the ThinkPad, like HP Zbook.

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            I personally prefer tap to click being off because I accidentally click too much when it is on. But it seems like I’m the only one with this problem, so I don’t mind changing a setting for it.

            Interestingly, on Windows you can’t set three finger tap to a middle click unless tap is on for this gesture only. It’s kind of a weird quirk.

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            if you like to click then go and configure your system to click

            Yes, that’s good. And since they changed from mouse single click to double click, the amount of needed changes stays the same.

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        Go to settings and turn it off then

        I will, the default is still a bad one, just as single click for years has been bad all that time.

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      1 year ago

      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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            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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          My apologies, it seems we do not have the same definition of proper touchpads, of all the laptop brands in the world, asus and hp are amongst the few that I would consider unsuitable including their touchpads which are the most basic low grade pads i can think of, maybe their more than a grand models are better

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      If anything, for me, it’s the total opposite. I got used to tap to click by using my old MacBook with its awesome trackpad, and I turn it off on shitty trackpads because it leads to tons of misclicks.