If I buy a laptop with a Microsoft Precision Touchpad, how does Ubuntu handle it? Does it work with the Synaptic drivers because the hardware is made by Synaptics? Or does the OS itself handle and interpret the event stream, like Windows 10 does? Is Ubuntu set up for this?
People (including Dell!) have installed Ubuntu on Dell XPS machines which feature PTP hardware, so I know it works. I want to know if it works as well in Linux as it does in Windows, and if it doesn't, what the configuration options are.