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It's stuff like this that routinely puts off power users from macOS.

I'd argue the ability to set system-wide keyboard shortcuts is a plus for pro users.

Without knowing the other settings in place (ie behaviour of other fn keys) it's impossible to know if this was required or not.

Tech people are terrible for working out over engineered solutions to simple configuration issues.

Agreed -- I would dump macOS for Debian in a second if it weren't for my workplace trying to standardize everyone on one OS. The fact that I have to buy a third-party app just to disable mouse/scroll acceleration and enable my mouse's extra buttons is absolutely ludicrous.

(if anyone is wondering, the third-party app I speak of is Smooze, and it's a godsend https://smooze.co/)

> Moustache: This app also includes a moustache.

finger-down-throat gesture accompanied by retching noises

At any rate, you can configure the "extra buttons" on most mice to do tasks on the Mac without special software. For example, I have a gaming mouse at home, and have one of the buttons configured to trigger Mission Control (showing miniature images of all windows open across all apps) merely through the Mouse pane of System Preferences. Also, games detect the extra buttons and can be configured to use them with no problem.

But yes, disabling mouse acceleration should be a built-in feature as well, and it is not.

Generally if I buy hardware I expect the vendor to provide Mac support. Microsoft does with its keyboards, for example, so a mouse should be no different.

Same goes for the macOS window manager, its utterly irritating for everyday tasks (think moving a window to another monitor and maximize in one go). Spectacle eased the pain a bit but I feel much more productive just back to Neon and work.

Power users already have the function keys set to be function keys (which is not the default), which is why I haven’t noticed this.

I’m not sure that’s true. Personally I use the volume, brightness, and media keys far more frequently than I do a function key. Setting them to be function keys by default would be a bit silly.

you can always set them to be regular function keys and use karabiner to override those media keys. that's the setup I have and it's pretty good.

In fairness, I've had to do far worse to get my middle mouse button working and my display to use the right resolution on Ubuntu in the past five years.

It was a misunderstanding on the part of the author not an issue with macos.

When this kind of thing happens it takes power from macOS

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