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
