Happens to me once in a while on the Macbook. It doesn't happen as often as it used to with Linux laptops a decade ago, but it still happens every few weeks.

I'm still not sure if I prefer large touchpads or smaller ones because of this. You run out of space more easily with a smaller one, but there's fewer accidents. (And more places to rest your thumbs.)

Occasionally I've seen it move the cursor, but overall, it's a great experience.

I remember years ago I used to always disable the touchpad on my laptops, but I've been all Apple since around 2012 so hadn't thought about that until I saw this article.

Yes since macbook touchpads are by a wide margin the best on the market. That's not really news. This happened with my Dell laptops all the time

Touchpad is also automatically disabled when typing on Linux, Gnome and Plasma do that since like ever.