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> Tap to click should _always_ be turned off; it's bad and it should feel bad

I love tap to click and it works great on my 2012 MacBook Pro trackpad.

However, on my brand new, expensive Dell Precision laptop from work, it's crap.

14 years after the introduction of the glass trackpads on the first unibody MacBook, I still haven't experienced a Windows or Linux laptop that comes close. Is it all due to patents?

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Huh, the touchpad on my Precision 7540 is absolutely my favorite touchapd I've used in _years_.

Three (!) real, hardware buttons that I can feel _without_ activating. Sensitive area a bit larger than I can cover moving fingers without moving my wrist. Even barely-configured libinput drivers in Linux (I think I might have turned up the sensitivity a bit) haven't had any palm detection errors, moves-interperted-as-taps, taps-interpreted-as-moves, or any of the other behaviors that drive me nuts with big Apple-style clickpads.

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