Part of why I’m posting it here is because just yesterday I posted that literally the first thing I do after installing Lubuntu on a laptop (in fact, even before I install, when running the live system to install it) is turn on “tap to click”. To me, it’s insane that it’s off by default but then this review has the line:
It’s a multitouch trackpad, though, so it does come with some niceties like multi-finger gesture support, two-finger scrolling, tap-to-click (for you weirdos who use that),
Apparently I’m the weirdo for wanting tap to click.
I have a dual boot mini pc that uses the N100 on DDR4, it only cost me around us$190. Win11 does not seem sluggish at all, although I very rarely boot into windows.
The N100 chip has really brought down the price of these budget devices. It’s usually combined with DDR5 and M.2 SSDs on PCIe, I’m eyeing a Chuwi 15.6" as a present for someone, it’s less than us$300 !
Genuinely curious, what is it about tap-to-click that is loathsome for you?
The only problem I can imagine is maybe accidental activation, but that just doesn’t happen for me (at least on the touchpads I have).
On the laptops I use, tap-to-click just seems so much easier for me, and easier on the buttons (some of them feel like they would quickly wear out if I used them constantly).
Disclosure: On my main machine, I only use tap-to-click “on the move”. Most of the time my laptop plugged into a USB hub with external mouse, keyboard etc.
