Am I the only one who doesn't get this? Trackpads on Linux with various Thinkpads have always seemed fine. I've used trackpads on various Mac laptops (Pro and Air) and those have seemed fine also. To round things out, my experience with trackpads on Windows (Thinkpads and XPS) has been that they are fine.

Admittedly I have Linux set up for keyboard use with a TWM, but the trackpads, when I used them, have been fine.

I have no idea about linux, scrolling on windows is pretty much hardcoded to use a early 2000s scroll wheel mouse.

Because of their low resolution, windows scrolling is done one text line at a time, while macs scroll a pixel at a time.

This sounds superficial, but it is really not. With the higher resolution, you get a very direct connection with the scrolled content. Without this almost tactile feedback, inertial scrolling doesn’t work at all.

And since scrolling is like 90 % of what I use a trackpad for, I will not even consider using windows with a trackpad until they have fixed it.

No longer true. Windows 10 works pretty well as long you use precision trackpad, or use an apple touchpad with a third party driver (https://github.com/imbushuo/mac-precision-touchpad , https://magicutilities.net )