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Re:Things I can’t do on macOS which I can do on Ubuntu (2020) by ryandrake on Tuesday April 26, 2022 @01:35PM (#31170479)
> 3: On-the-fly DPI adjustments. My mouse has buttons for cycling through a number of sensitivity presets. I set mine to have 400, 800, and 1600 DPI. When something requires high mouse precision (such as photo editing) I turn the sensitivity down.

Ahh, very interesting and very cool. That's the explanation I was looking for! Didn't realize mice had this feature or that OSes supported it.

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Re:Things I can’t do on macOS which I can do on Ubuntu (2020) by babypuncher on Wednesday April 27, 2022 @12:46PM (#31182380)
Operating systems do not implicitly support this, but lots of mice do at the hardware level. They can be configured with software provided by the manufacturer, and usually support storing these configurations on the mouse itself so they can be used without any extra drivers or software running in the background or on operating systems not officially supported.
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