As for the severity of the bug: the slower your mouse, the more you have to move your wrist and arm to move the pointer. Moving your arm and wrist instead of leaving your hand still on your wrist pad increases the risk of carpal tunnel syndrome.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to xorg in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1682193 Title: Mouse acceleration significantly reduced after upgrade to 17.04 Status in xorg package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: My external Logitech USB mouse was behaving nicely under 16.10 but after upgrade to 17.04 it has slowed down to a crawl. Settings slidebars are set at the maximum acceleration, but it only affects the touch pad, the mouse is extremely slow. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg/+bug/1682193/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp