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I don't care much about the fonts, i guess I'm the person who doesn't care about typography. i want my linux mouse pointer to behave as under macos.

I can't quite put my finger on it, but somehow on Linux (Mint cinnamon) the pointer always ends up in a place just slightly off from where I expect it to be. Also the movement feels jerky...

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It's the acceleration curve. MacOS is slightly exponential.

Which can be adjusted (at least in GNOME)

It's adjustable on every Linux variant desktop that I've used. I think they just probably don't know how mouse acceleration works. Currently that is Cinnamon

Well if you find it let me know. Also normal wheel scrolling

I've thrown away half a day trying to figure out how to get the scroll wheel to behave. No cigar. It still scrolls one line at a time in a terminal, and two pages at a time in firefox.

Try severely reducing the value of mousewheel.default.delta_multiplier_y in your Firefox about:config.

Thanks! Never realised there could be a per-program setting to fiddle with!

Most programs don't have internal settings for this, but Firefox does things its own way--and tends to break regularly because of it.

Also try reducing mousewheel.min_line_scroll_amount if changing the other setting doesn't help. Try a value of 16.

Is there a number you suggest?

Firefox' scroll behavior seems to be non-deterministic on Linux, so there doesn't appear to be a universal answer.

The default is 100, which seems to work fine most of the time, but for the OP's issue, reducing it by a factor of ten might be a good starting point.

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