Replaced my 2016 macbook pro with a T480s and the touchpad is okay (running Ubuntu). I don't miss the old touchpad so much for pointing, but the two-finger right click doesn't work for me on Ubuntu (tapping does, but not clicking), it's still the old fashioned hinged design and it doesn't have inertial scrolling, which is really a drawback. But the keyboard is so much better and the keycaps won't break and fall out. So it's still a win for me, I don't want to support apple as a company and their planned obsolescence.
OT: out of curiosity, did you get the one with FHD or WQHD screen? Having nightmares trying to set it up with an external monitor and scaling UI properly in Gnome.
WQHD, but just for the color gamut. Using gnome with 2x scaling and xrandr scaling to 1.25 to get effective 1600x900 (I think). I don't have an external monitor.
