New to MacOS, how to get mouse moving smooth?

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Recently got my first mac, a m1 air 8GB & very impressed how it stitches together a 200MP photo faster than a Ryzen PC & 16GB/RAM m.2 raid0. It's my intention to replace a Windows tower with Mac for work stuff, first by docking the air at the monitor during the PC-Mac migration then a mac mini in the future.

I'm used to various Linux Distros & Mac runs similar to Linux. However, the wired Razer Mamba Elite mouse does not move very well. It suffers from a stuttery mouse acceleration & scrolling is slow unless moving the wheel fast. The Razer mouse drivers don't work on the m1.
Is it a case of changing the trackpad options to be mouse friendly every time a mouse is used?
Would a magic mouse or similar solve the mouse issues?
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Ahh Apple prefer MacOS users to use a trackpad for the gestures which is why they crippled the mouse support?
I'm used to having change the mouse speed when switching between a mouse & trackpad in Windows but I can't get the mouse pointer to move or scroll smoothly at all in MacOS & the OS just feels clunky & stuttery with a mouse. This could be a Mac desktop deal breaker :eek:
 
Fixed the mouse movement with the Tracking speed setting being the slowest then increased the DPI on the mouse as it has DPI buttons. The issue was letting MacOS deal with mouse acceleration, but on the slowest setting its all down to the mouse sensitivity which has a high enough DPI to not rely on an OS acceleration.

Can't fix webpage scrolling as no matter what setting is used MacOS enforces an acceleration, so it scrolls very slow if move mouse wheel slow then as fast as the settings are if move mouse wheel faster. It's a dumb global setting designed for a trackpad & a shame it's replicated on a mouse wheel.

Quite surprised Apple allows such poor user device settings, far inferior to Windows or most Linux Distros.
 
Figured out the scroll wheel issue. Windows/Linux speeds up scrolling speed by increasing the number of lines scrolled per mouse wheel click but on MacOS this option does not exist as it's designed for a trackpad or Magic Mouse where there is no scroll wheel. The MacOS scroll speed can only be influenced by the acceleration of the finger stroking the err device :D. Hence why moving a mouse wheel slowly does not scroll very fast as the scroll speed is only affected by how quickly the scrolling device is moved. Kind of an anti normal mouse feature.

Is the £129 trackpad a better idea? I've always seen a trackpad as a downgrade in functionality but am impressed by the MacBook Air trackpad, even not knowing all the gestures yet.
 
Silent Bob said:
I use this https://mos.caldis.me with my MacBook Air and Microsoft Bluetooth mouse to smooth out scrolling. It also allows me to use the regular scrolling direction with the mouse wheel and "natural" using the touchpad.
Click to expand...

Amazing thanks, it works a treat. A bit like a mouse smoothing plugin on Firefox I use. MacOS is now useable with a normal mouse & scroll wheel.
I checked with Bitdefender folks & its clean.
 
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