The touchpad is great, yes, I like it, too. But I'm anyway mostly using mouse and keyboard and occasionally the 3-finger-swipe which is possible with Thinkpad+Linux as well since a few years. Thinkpads are also famous for their touchpad/trackpoint if one doesn't fancy using a mouse.
> I'm anyway mostly using mouse and keyboard
Have you considered that you're using the mouse because the touchpad doesn't work as well on any other OS?
It's not the hardware, it's the software somehow that makes the touchpad usable in Mac OS.