Simply The Worst: Elantech Trackpad

What a godawful pointing device. Around a quarter of the time, it’s laggy and unresponsive. The rest of the time, it’s just insanely lackluster.

Let’s not forget the badly-translated drivers.

Why can’t these OEM trackpad makers just make hardware that works with the built-in Precision Trackpad support in Windows? At the very least I won’t have to run “Property of touch-Pad” anymore.

Ugh. The worst.

To make matters worse, apparently Elantech is like Broadcom and they fsking hate Linux, so a big middle finger to trying to make any lappy with this turdburglar trackpad work with Linux.

Conversation 2 comments

  • ErichK

    Premium Member
    03 May, 2017 - 1:16 pm

    <p>I used to think the trackpad on my Asus T300 Chi was okay enough to use day to day, but then I decided I couldn't take it anymore and got me a wireless mouse.</p>

    • jimchamplin

      Premium Member
      03 May, 2017 - 8:02 pm

      <blockquote><a href="#111585"><em>In reply to ErichK:</em></a></blockquote><p>I just find it so annoying to have a mouse hanging off the side when the trackpad <em>could </em>be good, if only these cheap Chinese shovelware pads had never existed.</p>

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