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Scrolling with a third-party mouse looks horrible on macOS

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Re: Scrolling with a third-party mouse looks horrible on macOS

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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.

Re: Scrolling with a third-party mouse looks horrible on macOS

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post #2

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

Re: Scrolling with a third-party mouse looks horrible on macOS

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post #2

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.

Re: Scrolling with a third-party mouse looks horrible on macOS

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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.

Re: 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.

Re: Scrolling with a third-party mouse looks horrible on macOS

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post #8

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 app…

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.

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