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.
> 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).