Comment Mac OS mouse acceleration makes baby jesus cry (Score 0, Troll) 531
Offtopic, but I would switch to the Mac full time if they let me turn off the goddamn mouse acceleration. I was a given a dual 1GHz G4, and I'm loving it. Except moving the mouse cursor is like dragging it through the mud because Steve Jobs doesn't think I can handle a 1:1 relationship between moving the mouse and moving the cursor.
It's not simple acceleration like in Windows, it actually DEccelerates when you slow down the mouse, so I'm constantly undershooting my target (and then overshooting when I speed up the mouse and it goes faster than I intended).
You'd figure hey unix and all that jazz, there's gotta be a workaround. Instead there are about a dozen half-assed solutions that usually only turn the acceleration way down. Many of these 'solutions' cost money, like USB Overdrive and SteerMouse.
The best I can do right now is use the MS Intellipoint software, which lets you use it's own acceleration scheme, which is kind of like getting kicked in the balls instead of getting castrated.
It's not simple acceleration like in Windows, it actually DEccelerates when you slow down the mouse, so I'm constantly undershooting my target (and then overshooting when I speed up the mouse and it goes faster than I intended).
You'd figure hey unix and all that jazz, there's gotta be a workaround. Instead there are about a dozen half-assed solutions that usually only turn the acceleration way down. Many of these 'solutions' cost money, like USB Overdrive and SteerMouse.
The best I can do right now is use the MS Intellipoint software, which lets you use it's own acceleration scheme, which is kind of like getting kicked in the balls instead of getting castrated.
