Acceleration setting options for external mouse

1) I know this issue has been done to death before..... some will think it's dead, but clearly I feel something still needs to be done.

2) I'm posting here because the Feedback form would not allow me enough space to say what I wanted to. Instead I've included a link back to here.

3) Perhaps this will give an opportunity to bolstering the need to get this resolved.

4) In the meantime, a portion of the Apple community will continue to suffer and curse the product and company.

Dear Sir/Madam,

Please, please, please, provide, in the System Preferences, some options to, at least, disable acceleration of the mouse and mouse wheel.

I have a 2014 Retina MacBook Pro and I NEVER use the built in keyboard due to ergonomic reasons. Simply put, the palms of my hands touch the track-pad from time to time while typing and cause interference with what I'm doing on the computer. Therefore I always use an external 101-Key keyboard and external mouse.

I have a magic mouse but it is too low profile for hand and my fingers become sore and tired after using if for just a short while. In addition, the movement properties of the magic mouse are awkward. Therefore I use an ordinary run-of-the-mill mouse with wheel. The wheel on my mouse is stepped, and causes the acceleration feature to launch my page like a rocket right to the bottom. So I need to carefully inch my way down the page, indent by indent, or use the scroll-bar. Very frustrating. The track-pad itself is fine, except that it is smack in the middle where I need it least, but that's a problem with all laptop computers.

After reading a lot of comments on this topic at discussions.apple.com, it is clear to me that this is an emotive user preference matter. Any sensible discussion is difficult because the opening post is usually writtenin the heat of a frustrating use-case. This then draws the trolls in the community, much like Winnie the Pooh is drawn to honey. Too many contributors simply attempt to downplay the problem or explain that it isn't a problem at all, showing little to no empathy towards the person with the problem. All this occurs because those in the community are powerless to do anything about this problem. There are external tools such as USB-OverDrive and SteerMouse, but they've just filling a niche that should not exist in the first place.

So I beseech you to provide an option that satisfies all users, and at least provide a means of turning off the acceleration on the mouse and mouse wheel.

As a software developer, I frequently use other operating systems (Windows & Linux), and am very efficient when using the 101-Key keyboard layout together with an external mouse. This is an ergonomic inter-operability problem that needs to be solved. Note that no one is screaming at Microsoft or Linus Torvalds to introduce an equivalent acceleration feature that can't be controller; OS X is alone on this one.

Cheers,

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