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How is the touchpad in comparison to Mac?

Absolutely awful. I have to work on it, since it's part of standard hardware at Red Hat, and every time my dock stops working I immediately have to connect a mouse because the touchpad is unusable.

Compared to Mac, it doesn't support any gestures, doesn't mitigate the "oops" finger when you're moving your mouse, and altogether just doesn't feel comfortable. I'll try to edit my comment to be more descriptive once I get home because I don't remember in what ways is Mac better since its trackpad is like second nature to me now.

About the dock not working. I'm running RHEL7.6 and the issue is fixed in kernel 4.5+, otherwise Lenovo provides damn great job with their HW. It really has to do with that Red Hat adopted all of their HW for our development purposes.

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