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  • I run Gentoo on my 2012 MBP, but gentoo may not be as plug-n-play as others.

    I want to focus on the two input drivers I’ve tried though: libinput and mtrack.

    libinput will mostly work out of the box, but isn’t as customizable. For example there’s no way to adjust the sensitivity for thumb/palm detection. So when I try to do a “big” movement from one end of the trackpad to the other, the driver will accidentally detect a thumb and stop moving the cursor. I had to change the way I made contact to the trackpad for the entire movement to avoid thumb detection. Also libinput-gestures is great as another user has mentioned.

    mtrack gives you ultimate control to fine tune the trackpad. But that eats away at your time. And imo, gestures are harder to setup.

    I ultimately went with libinput myself because it achieves a 90% solution for me, with way less configuration.