Disabling mouse acceleration in Windows is a single checkbox exactly where you'd expect it: in the mouse control panel.
Disabling it in Linux: depends on the desktop environment. KDE has it on by default, can be disabled in much the same way as on Windows. Same for the GNOME desktop in Ubuntu: enabled by default.
Disabling mouse acceleration if your mouses' firmware does it: hopeless in Linux and in Windows. If you're lucky the mouse vendor has some Windows program that allows access to it.
Note that in all cases, disabling is easier or possible on Windows than on Linux.
>Disabling mouse acceleration in Windows is a single checkbox exactly where you'd expect it: in the mouse control panel.
No it isn't. If you uncheck the pointer precision box, there's still a level of acceleration happening behind the scenes, as late as Windows 7, that still requires registry changes to disable.
The post actually explains this is only needed for some old Windows games (predating Windows XP!) that mistakenly re-enable mouse acceleration themselves.
In my experience Linux mouse acceleration is actually more customisable than in Windows; X11 has several related options that can be added to your xorg.conf or changed without restarting X with xinput.
As for firmware related acceleration, I've not ran into any - but I can certainly imagine this being something easier to manage under Windows, considering practically all "gaming" mice are aimed at Windows users.
As for firmware related acceleration, I've not ran into any - but I can certainly imagine this being something easier to manage under Windows, considering practically all "gaming" mice are aimed at Windows users.
It's a feature of some mice. If it can't be disabled, it's a misfeature for gaming. Curiously some gaming mice are sold with acceleration that can't be disabled: http://www.saunalahti.fi/~cse/temp/mice.html
Disabling it in Linux: depends on the desktop environment. KDE has it on by default, can be disabled in much the same way as on Windows. Same for the GNOME desktop in Ubuntu: enabled by default.
Disabling mouse acceleration if your mouses' firmware does it: hopeless in Linux and in Windows. If you're lucky the mouse vendor has some Windows program that allows access to it.
Note that in all cases, disabling is easier or possible on Windows than on Linux.