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It's mostly to enable gestures and padding / swiping in macOS, but its also pretty nice getting to pan with one hand and use the pointer with the other.
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Great hardware held back by its software
And, tbh, at least MacOS has Independent Virtual Desktops per monitor. I'd sell my soul to have that on KDE
Enlightenment versions since 17 have been a bit hit and miss for being stable vs. frustratingly buggy, though. Enlightenment 25 has been alright (version packaged in Bookworm (current Debian stable).
(I've been wanting the equivalent for Windows or Linux)
It looks cool, but there is no screenshot or video of the settings you can configure. The videos show only the effects (scrolling, etc) and not how you can use your mouse or set it up to do it.
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It looks like this competes with Mos.app[0]. Honestly, I'm not sure how folks use non-magic mice without this. If you use macOS on a desk setup, I still recommend the magic trackpad over everything else; macOS is just designed around trackpads. It might not be the best for ergonomics, but if that's your concern and you work as a programmer, you should just optimize your workflows around the keyboard instead of the mo…
Totally unrelated, but since we are talking about QOL tools on macOS, i thoroughly recommend BetterDisplay[0] It enables reting scaling functionality on any external monitor, regardless of the resolution or the Apple compatibility. It's great for 2k monitors that are totally hiDPI but are not deemed enough by Apple, and even for FHD secondarh displays that don't need that much display real state so you can use that r…
Also nice is BetterMouse [1] (unrelated author). It's similar to the OP application in some ways. And it uniquely has a way to flip between spaces on MacOS that has very low delay, without breaking SIP. No idea how they did that.
The fix would be to deactivate the outer inch or so of the trackpad.
I can only imagine the overly-complicated and ultimately unreliable touch-rejection logic Apple has ladled onto this thing, to work around a problem they created.
It looks like this competes with Mos.app[0]. Honestly, I'm not sure how folks use non-magic mice without this. If you use macOS on a desk setup, I still recommend the magic trackpad over everything else; macOS is just designed around trackpads. It might not be the best for ergonomics, but if that's your concern and you work as a programmer, you should just optimize your workflows around the keyboard instead of the mo…
I tried using the magic trackpad. I liked it a lot, but something about how I held my pinky and ring finger kind of "tucked in" eventually lead to pain and I had to switch.
Not really responding to your comment except as a jumping off point for an ergonomics discussion
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I used PCs for decades before transitioning to Mac based laptops for work which I continued to use for the last 6 years. Due to the M1 laptops being poorly suited to my workflows, I have now changed back and am on a Linux powered Dell Precision laptop and am overall happy with the decision - though I had to compromise on a few things. I dislike Apple and find a lot of their choices distasteful - but I just haven't be…
You know what's crazy about the trackpad situation? You can put Windows or Linux on a real live Macbook and the trackpad gets worse. Everybody except Apple just insists on being wrong about trackpads.
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I typically buy gaming mice that don't necessarily have Mac support and just let macOS handle the mouse. It works sufficiently, not great but good enough for day to day stuff when I'm not using the trackpad.
I also use Windows for gaming and the built in mouse functionality is far from mind blowing. Not to mention that pretty much all 1st part mouse software on windows (and in general) is hot garbage. Ugly confusing UI, often slow and buggy and resource hogging.
For anyone interested in this App I would also suggest going to the Github page and checking the 3.0 Beta stuff which is completely different from the 2.0 version on their web page.
This app makes the scrolling really nice with a mouse it feels very much like the trackpad inertial scrolling.
The most interesting thing is you can assign different behaviors when you Click, Click and Hold, Double Click, Click and Drag, etc. various mouse buttons.
Other macOS mouse tweaking software I've tried are either too limited (ie. only adjusts scrolling, only adjusts mouse button assignment) or are way too complicated. I really don't want to have to keep track of multiple apps just to tweak the mouse. I like this app so far as it seem to cover everything with a nice simple UI.