We use many GNU/Linux with MS Intellimouse (four-button) from late 1990s Intellimouse Explorer 2.0 (mostly relatively new overstock) to recent years so-called Classic Intellimouse. Since 2010s we've had more & more problems with these and I wonder if the driver has serious/critical bugs.
        We've used them (since 1997) on Slackware, Devuan, Kubuntu, Mint, KDE Neon GNU/Linuxes and I also tested OpenSUSE, RedHat/clones (Rocky, Fedora), Gentoo, Arch (SystemRescue) GNU/Linuxes.
        Daily on every single one, occasionally/regularly mouse moves intermittently/'choppy' or even stops for maybe 10 to 30+secs or just permanently until unplug & replug or restarting X or rebooting. It happens with both Intellimouse Explorer & 'Classic'.
        My parents thought the problem might be mouse-pad, so they removed it and used mouse on table, which didn't fix anything. We noticed Intellimouse Classic doesn't seem to work much at all (unusable) on standard/classic blue mouse-pads but works on a white one (better than on a table that looks like woodgrain).
        I also use plain two-button USB MS mice mostly on servers I don't use GUI much if at all, so don't know it's a general MS mouse problem but their other mice have different drivers (when you install Slackware you select from MS Intellimouse or other USB or PS/2 mice).
        We also briefly tested Wayland possibly with same problem, but don't consider it 'production ready' for many reasons (nor do some/many others).
        The 'choppy' Intellimouse problem has happened across at least six different desktop PCs (and maybe some laptops) on every GNU/Linux they have/had. I don't notice the problem on FreeBSD UNIX (which of course originally is designed/standardized/engineered with a plan ahead of time instead of 'make it up as you go along').
        Did anyone else have this happen and is there any solution or anywhere I can report bugs?

I have an old MS mouse, called Mircosoft Sculpt Ergonomical Mouse. It works perfectly everywhere, using any OS (Windows, linux, ....).

Probably your mice are dirty, or there is another issue (usb ports?) or too old, but in general they should work without problems (as far as I know).
https://www.reddit.com/r/buildapc/co...omputer_mouse/

Optical mice--how?
I doubt it.

Hair or dust inside the mouse, near the optical sensor can cause the problems OP describes.

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