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People who use Mouse acceleration, why? (kbin.social)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Vuipes@kbin.social to c/AskKbin@kbin.social
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I know its enabled by default. This question is mainly for people who prefer to keep it enabled.

When I was playing with chatgpt he told me this:

When you use mouse acceleration, you have to move your mouse more quickly to cover the same distance on the screen. This can put more strain on your tendons and muscles. Additionally, mouse acceleration can make it difficult to develop muscle memory, which can also increase your risk of RSI.

From what is says it can be harmful.

I know chatgpt is sometimes wrong, but found only one source (Dr. Levi Harrison) that agrees and nothing more.

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[–] ithas@artemis.camp 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

People turn it off?! Surely it is faster with acceleration rather than without?! I guess I can try, I have now disabled enhance pointer precision in windows. What I can say is, it does actually seem to go faster than I expected. I then tried to get back to the checkbox to turn it back on and completely overshot the selection box and then overcorrected my overcorrection. Now I'm curious what most people use.

[–] strawberry@artemis.camp 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

usually its faster with acceleration. what acceleration does is when u move your mouse quickly it will move the mouse more proportional to how far u moved it. so move your mouse 10cm in 1 second and you get across the whole screen. move it 10cm in 10 seconds and it only moves halfway (pulled the proportions out of my ass but u get the point)

[–] ithas@artemis.camp 2 points 1 year ago

Which I definitely prefer. The chatgpt thing in the OP had me thinking -I- was hallucinating. I've always felt it takes less hand movement to move across the screen with acceleration