Trackpad on the Chrome 48

A lot of people have been talking about the trackpad on the Chrome 48, and how it is not meeting their expectations from their free laptop. I agree, it's not as nice as a Macbook, but I am learning a few things about it.

• You don't want to use tap-to-click. Just like with many cheap trackpads, it gives you a frustrating mixture of not listening to you when you tap it and moving your caret when you're typing. Given that this is the cheapest laptop I've ever bought, I can deal with turning off tap-to-click.
• Two-finger scrolling is frustrating if you don't know how to do it on this laptop. One way is to keep your fingers together. I've found that separating your fingers while scrolling makes it think it should go up at the end of a down scroll. The other option is to keep one finger in place while you scroll with the other. This may be the best way to do it.
• Right-clicking is a pain. Chrome gives you the option of holding down the alt key while you click to make a right click, and for some people, this will probably be the best thing for them.

I don't own a Macbook so I'm not used to all the fancy gestures people can use on it. I do know that it's a lot better than very cheap trackpads that don't do multitouch gestures at all. I'm one of those people who wonders why no one puts a TrackPoint pointer on computers anymore.