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As much as I would like to love macOS, Windows has absolutely perfect mouse acceleration. I can’t for the life of me tune the mouse experience on a mac to match windows. I always come back to my trusty PC after couple hours on a mac. So much snappier experience.

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Funnily enough these "small" things are probably the biggest barrier for switching. I'm a long-time mac user and I asked for a Surface laptop at my new job to give me some variation. Luckily I was able to switch to a Macbook Pro after a year or so, not because of the mouse but because of Windows' awful font rendering.

I know, I know, some people prefer the Windows way of rendering, but I just get sad :) Great system otherwise, especially with WSL!

Windows font rendering is just awful. It still feels so like 20 years ago with XP running cleartype on a low dpi monitor

It's mostly a personal taste thing, but I find the macOS (and even Linux) font rendering superior to Windows, even on low-dpi panels below Full HD. On Windows, the letters are thin, have sharp edges etc. I've tried using the ClearType tuning utility but the results honestly aren't much better. The macOS system font also seems nicer.

I actually hate macos font rendering...Windows has way better fonts on 27" 2560x1440 or 24" 1920X1200 monitors

With work issued macbook pro I have 2 4k 24" monitors to get that retina clarity instead and they keep fans on all the time.

Check out SteerMouse, my friend. It figuratively saved my life as I too can't stand the standard settings. It lets you configure both acceleration and sensitivity, and while it takes a while to find the sweet spot for your mouse, when you do - it's great!

https://plentycom.jp/en/steermouse/

agreed, especially with a couple of 4k monitors, it's a long mouse journey on macOS

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