I have had a Logitech G903 for almost 3 years now, and it worked great under Linux. It had smooth scroll properly working with solaar and I could remap/deactivate buttons with piper.

Now that the G903 seems like it’s going to die (random slowdowns), I’m in the market for a new mouse.

I got a Razer Balistik v3 pro, only to find out that Razer support on Linux is terrible.

So I got the G502 X Plus, hoping it would work like the G903 did, but has a bunch of issues.

For exampe: It’s not recognized by piper, so I cannot remap/disable buttons. While I can change the dpi with solaar, it only stays until I press the thumb-dpi-button, then it switches to a higher dpi and stays there. (had to enable in-memory profile on a windows vm with ghub, to make solaar work) … and many more.

Are there any good wireless mice out there, that have good Linux support?

  • ExtraMedicated@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I had a G500 for several years as well as a G5 before that. They worked great for years, but the G5 started to randomly slow down or disconnect/reconnect, and the G500 had that double-click issue you mentioned. I didn’t get another logitech after reading some reviews that mentioned the same issues.

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      1 year ago

      If you still have the G500 (or anyone else who has the double click issue), you can try taking it apart and cleaning it. Mine started to do the same thing about 6 months ago. I followed this guide to clean the metal contacts: https://zalbee.intricus.net/2014/02/how-i-fixed-my-logitech-g500-mouse/

      I didn’t do step 4 to remove the leaf spring and followed the advice in the Warning section in step 3 instead. It surprisingly worked and I’m still using my G500 now without any double clicks since.

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      1 year ago

      That’s promising :/ I really like the shape of that mouse, and the custom weights. What did you end up buying instead?

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        1 year ago

        I went with a Zelotes C-12. I don’t like it quite as much as I did the others, but it’s okay and has a lot of buttons. The scroll wheel did break once, but I was able to fix it.