I was using USB mice in the late 90s on Linux when all we had was USB 1.x era mice and they were complete garbage, but so were the PS/2 mice, so I decided to li

I was using USB mice in the late 90s on Linux when all we had was USB 1.x era mice and they were complete garbage, but so were the PS/2 mice, so I decided to live in the future. So, uh, what? When was there a time that USB mice didn't work, unless it was semi-intentional misconfiguration of X (which makes your criticism one of pre-modern X, not of Linux; and of which, you'd be preaching to the choir)?