Problems with mouse in Linux

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Title says "Linux" because I have experienced this problem in other distros as well.

Left click on my mouse stops working after I wake up the PC from sleep. Strangely enough, this only happens if I manually suspend the computer.

Also, especially when gaming, the cursor starts moving and clicking randomly. It only lasts for a short period of time but occurs frequently.

I am not a technical expert or anything, but I suspect this has something to do with Linux or my PC hardware. I feel like it's highly unlikely that it has something to do with my mouse as I just bought a new one recently.

I have asked this in another forum and so far have gotten no replies, any suggestions here would be welcome.

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What sort of mouse is it i.e. USB, Bluetooth etc. Also make/model would help.

Have you visited Zorin/Settings/Mouse and Trackpad and tested the mouse there?

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It is a Logitech M171 wireless mouse.

Disabling the touchpad in the Mouse and Touchpad settings seems to have fixed the issue for now. Maybe something is wrong with my touchpad.
But I won’t be jumping to any conclusions as I did the same thing in another distro and the issue returned after a while.

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Have you tried moving the mouse receiver to a different USB port?

Just did a websearch using "Logitech M171 Ubuntu 20.04" found this:

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I have tried and it did not fix the issue.

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Have you tried to see if 'solaar' works?:

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It seems that my touchpad was faulty and disabling it fixed the issue.
I am not sure as to why the issue resurfaced in my previous distro but oh well.

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