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I will hope and dream that this might someday lead to more mmo/12-button mice on the market, or at least the ability to customize them without relying on their proprietary software.
This. I greatly prefer mice with a large number of customizable buttons, but they're something of a rarity and universally use Windows-only software.
eta: or discontinued.
On the software side there's plenty of linux alternatives to the windows only stuff. Not at my computer to check program names, but my 12 side button mouse is just as usable as it was back on windows.
depends on the mouse model, many are not supported or the macro works bit you cannot edit them. Also corsair software had an automatic switch of the macro profile depending on the main window opened, that was amazing, you could always had the right one without doing anything
Same here. My Logitech 602 works fine with... I think it was Piper?
Yep, Piper is what I use with my Logitech G600.
Both the 600 and 602 were discontinued though, right?
Yeah, I think so. I had a backup G600 that replaced my old one a couple of years ago.
I think they discontinued it before then brought it back for a while but looking on Amazon UK it seems unavailable. RIP G600 :(
How does piper compare to solaar?
I'm not sure, I never heard of Solaar until you mentioned it!
I find Piper to be excellent though. For my G600 I can control the LEDs, remap the buttons, set the various DPI resolutions and control the report rate. It does everything I used the old Logitech Gaming Software for (fuck Logitech G Hub).
100000% this. Also wireless charging mousepads. I have the Logitech Power pad or whatever it's called and it works perfectly (with their compatible mice, none of which is a 12button 😑)
I've had two of those in the past and really liked them but they died on me too fast.
I’m holding out moving to Linux because of my G600 and G13. I believe G13 driver support is in the making.
are you changing settings frequently? if not, settings should be stored on the on board memory and it will continue working on linux
I keep games controls on default and set them up to my G600 mouse and G13 gameboard on Logitech control panel for games and other software. I have dozens of settings.