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linux was plagued for a long time by lagging mouse cursor
by nok22kon 4mo ago
linux was plagued for a long time by lagging mouse cursor
- koiueo 4mo agoI've been using Linux every day for the last 17 years, and that's the first time I'm hearing this. I'm genuinely surprised. The way you word it, it looks like a famous ubiquitous problem. Mind sharing any details?
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- jaapz 4mo agoI've also had computers with nvidia, amd (even back when it was still ATI) and intel gpu's, at least since 2006, and can't remember ever having an issue like this. Not saying it's not an issue, but there is such an incredible amount of hardware configurations that linux supports, so it's a bit weird to say that "linux" in general has suffered a bug like this.
- JamesMcMinn 4mo agoThere was a time when it was quite bad, especially if using Wayland and under heavy CPU or I/O loads. I think this has mostly been solved now, but I do recall getting frustrated with the switch to Wayland because of it.
- kiicia 4mo agonot necessarily ubiquitous, but you can encounter some issues with "lagging cursor" even today, if you use standard raspbian for example > usbhid.mousepoll=0 > to /boot/cmdline.txt > This option was implemented to enforce a mouse polling rate of 62.5Hz which dramatically reduced the XWindow event system update rate in certain circumstances (oddball or "performance" mice can have update rates of 1000Hz, which is silly).
- jetbalsa 4mo agoMy latest and greatest ThinkPad T14s Gen 6 likes to do it sometimes on cachyos, I can't nail it down from a KDE or hardware issue as it never does it while docked or a external mouse
- functionmouse 4mo agostill does for me whenever the CPU works hard my cursor starts to lag
- reddalo 4mo agoPeople are downvoting you, but my Linux machine always feels like my mouse lags a bit compared to Windows.