My venerable Logitech Mouse a is nearing the end of it’s life and I’m thinking about a replacement. Since I have no plans to switch my Gaming PC to Windows 11 I would like to have a mouse (and eventually a keyboard) that properly supports Linux.
I looked at the sites for Corsair, Logitech and Razer and the corresponding software is available for Windows (and sometimes MacOS for some reason) but no Linux Version.
Since I actually use some of the fancy Gaming-Gear functionality like setting up macros and variable DPI I’d like to use the software that is used to set these things up.
How do you guys deal with this?
Is there a manufacturer that offers their software for Linux?
Do these things run properly under Wine?
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The stock software will not run in Wine. I would suggest picking hardware that’s supported by Piper.
Oh, and the UI even looks better than the totally overloaded official Logitech UI. Thanks!
There is also Solaar, which has tray battery status support and keyboard support.
I use both, as both have features the other doesn’t.
It’s third party and CLI only, but rivalcfg supports a decent variety of Steel Series mouses / mice / meece / mousen.
I bought a Razer Basilisk 3 because it was the only mouse where I could reach both thumb buttons with the fingertip-ish grip I use. Wasn’t fully supported by Linux software at first, but worst case I could program it on Windows which I had on a dual boot at the time. Now that I can use it with Polychromatic and OpenRazer it even works better on Linux. On Windows the Razer software won’t let me save individual LED colours to the mouse, and needs to be running all the time in order to do that…
I’ve been using Linux for almost 25 years and I’ve never once considered mouse or keyboard incompatibility, and that’s including ADB, PS/2 and DB9 devices, let alone USB.
As far as I know, you can intercept any signal from any such HID device and map it to whatever action you want to achieve at whatever level you need it.
I’m happy to be wrong, but I’d be surprised.
A lot of newer big “gamer” brand peripherals are coming bundled with proprietary software you gotta run to get full functionality.
A friend of mine recently tried Linux and had his scroll wheel not work because it was tired to the software on Windows for some stupid reason…
I saw this trend starting nearly a decade ago when Razers software bricked my Win7 PC by booting before the login screen, I’ve avoided any devices with mandatory software since, but seems the issue has only grown lately.
I have a Keychron K3 Pro keyboard that can be programmed with VIA and I’m more than happy with it.
My mouse is a VAXEE Outset Wireless. This doesn’t need any software to change DPI / polling rate etc. All of it can be done by pressing buttons on the underside of the mouse. It works very reliably.
Razer mice and keyboards can be managed with openrazer under Linux. I still use deathadders on a few Linux machines ( and one Windows games PC ) but I’ve ditched my razer keyboards for keychron which don’t really need any software. You can configure the RGB components of them all with openrgb if you want in Linux and Windows.
That looks awesome, thanks!
Don’t use proprietary software for something so simple as mouse and keyboard macros and variable DPI. Use Piper or something.
Nice, thanks!
I prefer logiops to piper because it lets you chord, e.g. hold back button and swipe right I have configured to switch activites in kde, so you get five times the bang for your buttons (static, swipe up, down, left, right). You can then use the key combos it generates in games.
