And the user don&#x27;t care.<p>They just see the X11 driver allowing them to define their own areas etc on a touchpad, while libinput does not.<p>As the old &quot;joke&quot; about MS Office goes, 99% of their users use only 1% of the functionality. But they all use a different 1%.<p>Yet MS products are what has been adopted massively across the world, in large part because MS have a history of bending over backwards to not break user space.<p>Right now the Linux user space is pulling a &quot;deal with it&quot; move at massive scale, something more in tune with Apple than MS.<p>This will likely alienate both current and prospective users. Just look at the shit storm that happened when Apple dropped their Xserve range virtually over night.