<story><title>Liberating the MacBook Air 2013 with Linux</title><url>https://boilingsteam.com/liberating-the-macbook-air-2013-with-linux-complete-guide/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>toastal</author><text>So Apple &lt;i&gt;doesn’t&lt;/i&gt; have a monopoly on “good” trackpads and most things are fixed with software? But hardware is the arguments they make for their Apple purchases!</text></item><item><author>mikae1</author><text>Just gave Fedora a go on my 2015 MacBook Air. The most frustrating thing was how bad the trackpad suddenly sucked.&lt;p&gt;I haven&amp;#x27;t tried &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;howchoo.com&amp;#x2F;linux&amp;#x2F;the-perfect-almost-touchpad-settings-on-linux-2&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;howchoo.com&amp;#x2F;linux&amp;#x2F;the-perfect-almost-touchpad-settin...&lt;/a&gt; yet.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Toutouxc</author><text>As a customer I don’t really care if it’s hardware or software, Apple delivers where others don’t.</text></comment>
<story><title>Liberating the MacBook Air 2013 with Linux</title><url>https://boilingsteam.com/liberating-the-macbook-air-2013-with-linux-complete-guide/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>toastal</author><text>So Apple &lt;i&gt;doesn’t&lt;/i&gt; have a monopoly on “good” trackpads and most things are fixed with software? But hardware is the arguments they make for their Apple purchases!</text></item><item><author>mikae1</author><text>Just gave Fedora a go on my 2015 MacBook Air. The most frustrating thing was how bad the trackpad suddenly sucked.&lt;p&gt;I haven&amp;#x27;t tried &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;howchoo.com&amp;#x2F;linux&amp;#x2F;the-perfect-almost-touchpad-settings-on-linux-2&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;howchoo.com&amp;#x2F;linux&amp;#x2F;the-perfect-almost-touchpad-settin...&lt;/a&gt; yet.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pseudostem</author><text>Not exactly, I tried to configure the trackpad open-source (driver?) ages ago.&lt;p&gt;The hardware itself has so many features&amp;#x2F;switches which are not open and hence not available to the software.&lt;p&gt;The hardware and software go hand in hand IMO.&lt;p&gt;Maybe things have changed now, this was at least 7+ years ago.</text></comment>