Query: Reason it out? I asked about sensors to prevent any misunderstanding. There are many suggestions I could make, and your response is to "reason it out," along with a stupid meme? Are you intentionally trying to conflagrate this?
Dismissal: Fine, the hell with you. You might think three buttons is plenty, but even your "basic gaming mouse" usually comes with five nowadays, and you'll wonder how you ever lived with only three afterwards. You want three buttons, you're better off with a basic mouse instead.
This, get any decent office mouse and you have exactly what you're looking for.
The gaming offerings are gimmicky at best unless you want the other features. I have used logitech, razer, roccat, and steelseries. IMO Logitech is king for me...simply for the unlocking scroll. I currently have 2 g500's a g700, and a g900. My wife has the g502, also a great mouse. I would highly recommend the g500 if you can get past the part where it has more buttons than you want.
I dont know of any mouse that doesnt work in linux but maybe the software to program it might not. If thats the case you might want to stick with logitech here too because for all the G series I have the mouse holds the profiles on it even when the software isnt running.
Side note, I cannot use a mouse without back and forward browser macros. Even if you dont use it to game with it can be extremely valuable as a function in your basic computer use.
This. Over 9000 times this. Whenever working on a computer without these 2 crucial buttons I cannot stand it. All mice should have at least 5 buttons imo: right, left, middle, forward, and back. At home I use a g600 because muh buttons. At work I have an M500 which does fine for the work I do.
I was wondering about that; because the specs on most mice don't include Linux in the compatibility list. I assumed that there was a lot of standardization; but I wasn't confident.
Your profiles are limited though, because of the onboard storage, so if you hit your limit, you will have to swap out profiles from time-to-time. The G502 only has storage for three profiles for instance. Compare this to the G9x, which has storage for five profiles, which you can only do in the software, so you'd have to fire up Windows. I don't know why they reduced the storage. I can see those five slots being very useful if you're in Linux.