• numbermess@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    I just got an MX Master 3S and it’s a wonderful mouse, but the Logi Options+ software is fucking TERRIBLE. God it’s bad. They are definitely pushing this AI prompt builder nonsense, but the mouse itself just stops working for long periods of time and the the Options+ interface says that the mouse is “unavailable”, even though it’s right there and I can physically see it with my eyes and move it around with my hands. My computer says it’s still connected via Bluetooth, but no, this thing that wants me to create a mouse account and use an additional AI prompt builder says the mouse doesn’t work. I ran across a 3rd party program that lets me map the additional buttons on the mouse to the functions I like and am able to get by just fine without any Logitech software at all, and the mouse always works now. This mouse feels like they just accidentally made good hardware in spite of themselves.

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      5 months ago

      I had to use third party software to assign the buttons on my Logitech trackball because their own software didn’t recognize it.

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      5 months ago

      Haven’t had as bad of a time with Options+ but it still sucks. It somehow acts like it’s connecting to some piece of complex and archaic industrial test equipment as opposed to a brand new mouse. It often takes longer than a Windows update and restarting the computer. It also causes way more cpu load while idle than could ever be considered reasonable.

      Options was ok, it still had issue and still wanted an account, but it would at least just connect, update, close etc.