The whole ChromeOS UI and input stack is entirely different from a typical Linux desktop. I'm not sure there's a lot there that could be shared out to the Linux X11 desktop world.
The Pixelbook Go drops/skips samples all the time, and resamples everything to 48k for no reason. With all the dropped samples it's an unlistenable mess. Only works if you don't touch the machine at all while listening and have no background tabs. I don't think there's anything to be learned from this, except as counterexamples.
Apple supports only their own touchpads, ChromeOS also selected ones. Windows provides the great experience only for the Precision touchpads (i.e. not even to Apples under Bootcamp). Linux is expected to work with random crap, that even its vendors have given up upon.
> Linux is expected to work with random crap, that even its vendors have given up upon.
What prevents Linux from picking ONE touchpad to optimize for? After all, both Lenovo and Dell are now shipping certain laptop models with official Linux support.
That brings you back to the days when you have to compare model numbers on every piece of equipment you buy to see if it is compatible, and discovering all to often that the compatible version was last year's model and the one you can buy isn't supported.
Casting a wide net is necessary if you don't want just a niche audience.
All of this is just woefully overestimating how important the desktop market is to manufacturers at this point, Windows and Apple included.
Hardware manufacturers care a lot about the Linux market. But that Linux is Android, not desktop machines. Yes, the linux desktop segment is a tiny fragment of the market, but that market itself is shrinking and has been for almost a decade.
The point was, that the other OSes picked specific hardware and they provide great experience only on that hand-picked hardware and nothing else. I specifically noted, that Apple touchpads do not work under Bootcamp as nicely as the Precision ones do, as an example.
I don't think so, I think it's mfgs skimping on the hardware. I have an xps 13 and it is incredibly precise. My old lenovo was ok. Not terrible but nothing like the xps. Which in my opinion beats a macbook pro.
