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One thing the Mac doesn't let me configure, even from the command line, is scroll wheel acceleration.

Sure, I can disable pointer acceleration, and I can change the overall scroll wheel speed, but I can't disable acceleration. I feel most comfortable with 1 scroll click being 3 lines of scrolling. It should ALWAYS be that way, no matter how fast I move the wheel. If I quickly flick the wheel and do 5 clicks, that should be 15 lines of scrolling. If I'm very slowly going click....click....click....each click should be 3 lines.

Instead, if I scroll quickly, each click might give 5 lines, and if I scroll slowly, each click is a pixel or two, and there's no option to disable this awful scroll acceleration behavior, even on the command line.



You may want to look into using a third-party tool to remove scrolling acceleration. According to web sleuthing you can change this behavior with SmoothScroll, Mac Mouse Fix, USB Overdrive, SteerMouse, Smooze, or Discrete Scroll. (Disclaimer: I never tried these.)


Goes to prove Mac is not the epitome of design. More like epitome of dumbing down


Having mouse and scrolling acceleration is preferred by almost everyone, and most people enjoy the Mac’s mouse/trackpad behavior. Wanting linear scroll speed is a niche preference, a perfectly reasonable case to leave to third-party utilities.




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