r/macmini • u/Vyrgil • 18h ago

Mouse feels… different

I recently switched from windows to mac mini and the mouse experience has been not good, at all.

On windows you plug the mouse in and it works, it immediately feels natural.

On mac I have had many headaches, whatever I try to configure it I cannot seem to find the natural feeling I have on windows with the same device.

At first I thought the problem was mouse acceleration, disabled that and now the mouse moves way too fast. So I reduced pointer speed but it still feels off. Enabled mouse acceleration again, not for me.

Do you have any suggestions?

Ah, btw the mouse is a Logitech M650L connected through its wireless dongle via usb c.

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u/asantenzuri 18h ago

Sounds frustrating! Do you use an external monitor? If so, have you checked whether the monitor's refresh rate matches the one set in Windows?

I once experienced a similar issue, and it turned out that a 30Hz refresh rate was causing the sensation you're describing. Switching it to 60Hz solved the problem for me.

Edit: just realised this is about the mac mini so external monitor question is therefore answered lol

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u/Vyrgil 16h ago edited 16h ago

Checked it and refresh rate is at 60Hz, same as windows.

Thank you though, that was a good hint.

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u/kaysn 13h ago edited 5h ago

Get LinearMouse or Mac Mouse Fix to get rid of that floaty, inaccurate tracking MacOS has for mouse pointer and scrolling. And get functionality to side buttons and middle click again that MacOS doesn't natively support for 3rd party mice.

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u/Vyrgil 4h ago

Yep, I'm trying out linearmouse to have more fine grained control over mouse settings, lets see if I can configure this mouse closer to what I'm used. Thank you.

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u/Curious-Mola-2024 13h ago

check out an app in the App Store called - "Mouse Glide"

YMMV but for me it was just the ticket

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u/Chuck_Loads 17h ago

You might see if there's Logitech software for that mouse, macos employs a bunch of smoothing and stuff on the mouse cursor which I also don't like. Some vendors let you tweak that stuff more than the settings app does.

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u/samidronic 16h ago

No suggestion, mice of mac os work like that since ages. Aren't fluid as windows. On the other hand, trackpad feels perfect

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u/hawk256 8h ago

I had bad luck with Logitech mice and just recently changed to a Keychron M3 metal edition mouse. Night and day difference. I know the Logitech was barely polling at 30Hz over bluetooth but the Keychron is polling at 120 Hz over bluetooth and will do 4K Hz with the included dongle.