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>Step 1: Enable tap to click

We are very different people. Tap to click is the bane of my existence. I can’t work on a system that has that enabled.

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It’s funny how I cannot live without this feature

I enable tap to click on those "diving board" style touchpads if I'm going to be using the system for long stretches without a mouse - the amount of force needed and top-to-bottom variability of the diving board drives me nuts. I'd definitely rather have a modern haptic trackpad though.

I never found the diving boards bad, but I think that is due to starting to use trackpads back when they had physical buttons under them, and I never changed my technique. I use my index finger to move around, and my thumb hangs out near the bottom of the pad for when I need to click.

I’m not sure how else I’d do things like a click and drag operation. The whole double tap and drag thing always seemed pretty error prone for me.

Three fingers to drag. I’ve been using a Windows laptop for a couple weeks and the necessity of double-click for drag lock is obnoxious.

I think people who want more control disable it. It's annoying when it accidentally clicks on things.

I just tried to enable it for 10 minutes and I will never enable it again. This is also a reason why I can not work on non mac laptop trackpads - they are unreliable, accident taps happens all the time.

I use tap-to-click, two-finger tap to right-click, three-finger drag for dragon drop operations. Never noticed an accidental click.

I do, however, see canceled clicks often (I clicked, the item I touched changes color, but nothing happens.) Since I’m here, same thing happens on iPad and iPhone - touch, color change, no action.

I stopped reading at this point, realising how different this person is from me and how much less likely I am to vibe with any of the other tips.

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