What does HackerNews think of mac-precision-touchpad?
Windows Precision Touchpad Driver Implementation for Apple MacBook / Magic Trackpad
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I love my CST L-Trac but sometimes I wish I'd gotten the version with the extra button inputs to setup some extra keybinds.
Alternatively I've finally become used to having a magictrackpad2 and gestures. And thank you other devs[1] for someone getting it working on Windows x86/ARM64 builds as well. Next step is trying to find out if I can get it working fully under FreeBSD.
I was able to use one with the right drivers under Windows 10
Haptic touchpads vs a hinge click is a big deal. I switched to a magic trackpad 2 because of RSI in my right hand and no other trackpad is close.
Side note, massive praise to anyone who has contributed to the windows drivers for the apple trackpads. They are amazing.
For the touchpad, only ever use this driver: https://github.com/imbushuo/mac-precision-touchpad (the Apple one is unacceptable trash...)
"scrolling on windows is pretty much hardcoded to use a early 2000s scroll wheel mouse"
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 )
It's probably worth comparing notes with Bingxing Wang, who has a similar project to provide an open source Apple Touchpad driver for Windows:
There's now a 3rd party precision touchpad driver that works surprisingly well for MacBooks. Unfortunately it's CPU-bound and high CPU load can cause the touchpad to be unresponsive. Setting CPU affinity to high partially mitigates the problem though