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?

  • Maniac
    18•1 year ago

    Every mouse should be fine. It’s just the ones with software might not be configurable.

    • @Molecular0079
      10•1 year ago

      Could be configurable if you pass through the device to a Windows VM. Far from an ideal experience but its doable.

      • Kerb
        2•1 year ago

        afaik that should work,

        running the software in wine/lutris could be an simpler solution

        • @Molecular0079
          5•1 year ago

          I’ve never had much success with wine when it comes to hardware access or anything driver related, but I could be wrong in OP’s case.

      • Maniac
        1•1 year ago

        Yeah it’s possible but the solution seems less ideal. Luckily I don’t thing changing settings on a mouse is a common thing.