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How about the trackpad? And the power switch?

I've been running Ubuntu and Kali on a Dell machine for a few years and the trackpad has always been unusuable and the power switch is always power-down (instead of sleep, standby).

Yes, I've messed with the xorg settings for the trackpad and the ACPI settings for the button, but gave up.

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Slightly related: I'm running Ubuntu on a Thinkpad and the trackpad is pretty painful to use (after using macOS for years). I went out and bought a mouse a few days ago for this reason.

It is bizarre how good mac laptop touchpads are. I've used a number of Windows laptops and nothing comes close (caveat: I've never used a top-tier Win laptop).

Switching from xinput to synaptics was a big improvement on the touchpad for me (Ubuntu 18.04 on T490)

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