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Scrolling with a third-party mouse looks horrible on macOS

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As someone who just moved to macOS, I have to say that the vaunted “Apple cares so much about user experience” and “it just works” ethos is pretty creaky. I’ve used Windows and Linux for years, and never had a window get stuck under the taskbar. Happens way too often on Mac. Some things are great. But the annoyances stick out like a sore thumb.

It’s a good thing that macOS is so much better at efficiently running apps than other OS, because between Karabiner, MiddleClick, Rectangles, etc. I’m going to end up with 75 little apps to fix the stuff that works everywhere else.

For me macos has easily the absolute window management of any WM system I've ever used. Everything feels unnatural and awkward and requires me to do exactly what you say, download 50 random apps to get it to behave in some even remotely reasonable way.

And if i brush the touch bar and hit a button one more time I might just chuck the thing out a window.

Aside; I tried Windows 11 on a VM recently and I see MS removed the Move option from the right-click context menu for apps in the bar, that used to allow one to hit an arrow key (and move the window around with the arrow keys) once then simply move the mouse to move the window, so I had to full screen the VM to rearrange windows within it.

Oh wow. I definitely relied on that when a window didn’t act right. I don’t even know if the Win+Shift+arrow keys would move it, with a single window? You could pane it, obviously, but that’s not really the same.

Same here, Apple just want you to buy a magic mouse / trackpad. I ended up using https://linearmouse.org/ , free and open source.

Works like a charm, doesn't interrupt touchpad either: https://mos.caldis.me

I didn’t know I needed this until I opened this thread. Wow this is much nicer. I didn’t know what was wrong this whole time

TBH I think MacOS has been optimized for trackpad for so long, it's almost required. Swapping my logitech g400 for the Magic Trackpad was pretty mindblowing

I went this route too but ended up getting an RSI in the tip of my finger. I went back to a mouse.

macOS's vertical scrolling orientation options are lacking for third party devices.

I use ScrollReverser to work around this issue.

I use a Razer Basilisk X. Big issue with Razer dropping support for mouse setup in macOS and Linux. Imagine lacking basic tuning and firmware updating in 2022.

No they’re not. You can just set them

You can set them, but they also reverse the trackpad.

I like them both reversed. I must be in a small group that finds two-finger dragging the viewport down much more comfortable/natural on a trackpad to read more, rather than pushing the page upward.

Oh yeah, correct. I get confused when mixing directions. I like to have both on classic

Doesn't Edge implement smooth scrolling?

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