Chris - Yeah, I have been using Linux on my desktop for years. Funny story, I recently bought an HP laptop (where I normally use brew software) that came with M$ of course, it had known issues with the touchpad drivers in Linux, so I held off until I could find a solution somewhere. There were lots of discussion/help forums on various distro sites and HP site and yadda yadda, with no real solutions. I couldn't find a fix, so I just went ahead and installed latest Ubuntu anyway (hoping I could troubleshoot it on my own). Sure enough the touchpad didn't work and had to use a external mouse. But when I went into mouse/touchpad "acceleration and sensitivity" settings were down to zero so I simply changed settings and presto, works fine:-) I posted on one lengthy discussion thread on the issue and I'm betting there are a few super Linux geeks that may be slightly embarassed they didn't find that fix;-) Kinda like the "is it plugged in?" end user mistake, lol.
Brew - I agree, so far so good on the Brewtarget software!