Comment by cxr

I'll make the same point I make every time this topic comes up: there are Chromebooks with great touchpad experiences, and that's been the case for a long, long time. This is not a "Linux" or "open source" problem; this is a problem of ignorance and/or insufficient interest on the part traditional (i.e. non-ChromeOS) distros and their users. It's nuts that this was and continues to be a high-profile, multi-year effort spawning discussions that end up framing the whole thing as elusive—rather than, you know, a solved problem that is pretty much not even worth mentioning but for the long tradition of poor execution.