So the story begins when my Grandparents asked me what I wanted for Christmas and I had no idea what to tell them. A few days later when holding my shitty generic mouse i said Heureka, I actually have an Idea :) I'll tell them to buy me a nice ergonomic (gaming) mouse and then finally have a nice set of peripherals (got a nice cherry brown mechanical keyboard a few months ago)
Then I was completely overwhelmed by the choices and when i finally kind of narrowed it down, I remembered that they might not play nicely with linux (currently running ubuntu gnome). Now i'm clueless again and without much information regarding the matter pretty dang lost.
Thats why I'm now askiny you guys for your Help, Advice, and Experience.
The budget is around 50Euros (relatively flexible if it's worth it)
I'm doing normal power-user stuff and am getting more and more into some gaming (gonna go hunting for a console killer in the Chrismas Hollidays)
I have quite large fingers so it should be a farely large one i think
I'd like to have a few programable buttons under my thum (2 is okay 3 would be better)
Any important info i missed???
I went to a Computer hardware store and really liked the Logitech G402 and to a lesser Extend the Steelseries Rival 300 and the Speedlink Kudos Z-9
The most important question is which mouse will cause me how much hedaches in windows ;)
No gaming mouse will play nicely on linux as they would on windows, why? Cause there's no 'control center' for linux, all mice ship with windows only drivers (prolly osx too idk). They will work yeah, but to customize the macros or change ie lighting if that's what you want you're gonna have to edit the mouse settings on windows, push the settings to the mouse and then use the mouse on linux. Alternatively you can write your own configs in linux to make the mouse work in one way but if you're new to linux that might be too hard. So they all play nicely and none of them does, you just won't have the point and click settings configurator you have in win.
Like @Dje4321 said, basically all hardware is built to support windows, linux on the other hand is built to support hardware - it's a complete 180. That being said it will work, but you're gonna have to script the extra settings/features yourself.
edit: I am sorry i just saw the thing with programmable buttons..sorry for not reading your post entirely...I will still leave this here if someone needs one without programmable buttons
I would vouch for all the zowie mice...I got the fk2 and it is beautiful...it is a true gaming mouse...if u only want a mouse for it being a mouse i.e having great tracking and moving really smooth then i would say this is the best mouse I have ever touched
btw...its driverless...you do not need to install anything..it just works...you don't have all the lights and colours that all the other "gaming" mice have but you decide what's more important to you...the tracking capabilities performance and durability or it being a cool art piece with lights
Thats definitely good enought for me (at least for a start)
mabe that'll be a good starting point for my future linux exploration endavors and thanks @versable for the link (looks really interesting and informative at first glance)
No worries yes I'm gonna try out how life is with a few more buttons on a mouse (but couldnt care less about RGB)
So I pretty much decided to go for a Logitech g502. (really liked the feel in my hand)
I still need a mousepad and I think i heard something that level1 mousepads are coming shortly after chrismas? anybody knows anything about that? and how much will shipping to europe be?? It would be really cool I guess but the sensible route would probably be to buy a generic one and donate a few bucks to patreon.
Anyway Thanks for the insight y'all. I was just really confused and wanted some real, trustworthy answers :)
Get a programmable mouse (any mouse with on-board memory)
Get Windows + drivers
Set up your mouse dpi, polling rate, macros, calibrate the mouse to the mouse pad you are using...
Go back to Linux and it works just fine.
I have two computers one is running Ubuntu the other windows but you can use a virtual machine in Linux to set up your mouse.
-I recommend anything from Mionix -Logitech 400s are nice (I use a G403 for FPS games) -not a fan of SteelSeries. Had a Sensei and Rival 100 both began to have tracking issues in a month and died.
so i finally decided to get a g502 and am really happy with it so far... already felt the difference in games of having quite a few more buttons on the mouse and am gonna experiment further with a profile for web browsing (which focusses on back/forewards functunality and custom script management) and one for wonrd processing/general productivity (with copy, cut, paste...)
from first impressions i belive that it works just fine with linux aswell
I had some issues with the G502 personally, I think it defaulted to a particular profile that I wasn't used to (unless I somehow managed to switch it unintentionally). That was fixed for me by installing lomoco - supposedly I could customize a few things with it too. I haven't tried anything yet though.
mostly living on windows at the moment because holidays and games :D but thanks and i will definitely check it out
Part of the reason for this one was that its quite popular and with that usually comes some community (linux) support, info, reverseengineered tools... what profiles are you running?? and does it make a difference how you configure the sensitivity (mouse and/or os)
My profiles are mostly default, mostly because I never feel like booting into Windows to change anything and I'm too lazy to check how lomoco works :P I'd use extra mouse macro buttons if they had them. I tend to run with low DPI as I'm a Counterstrike nut, but it's really up to preference. I'm probably going to disable or change the dpi buttons to something else because I tend to accidentally bump them. It just messes up my play.
DPI doesn't really matter for accuracy though... It should always be the same "accuracy" no matter what DPI you set it to.
I agree, I haven't found a way to manage my Logitech G402 on linux What I do is config my mouse on windows and then try to use that configuration on linux.
For the most part, I just use my Razer Naga 2014. You don't need software to set keybindings in games cause the number pad on the left of the mouse is just the number pad on the keyboard, and most games will let you assign ANYTHING in the game to those characters. You can also assign actions to the number keys above the letters and the thunb pad keys will use those too.
No software needed. No macro bullshit needed.
Great mouse for me. The only thing you can't do is set up dpi settings.
