Just my opinion, why I'm not using Linux. I would love to use Linux, but I will call out Steelseries for not making Steelseries engine to Linux. I have a Steelseries Rival mouse, that uses their engine(obviously) and I need to modify my mouse settings pretty frequently. If they make any kind of software for my mouse for Linux, then I will totally move over to it.
I hate Microsoft Windows. I hate, how it works, how it tries to take control from me from my computer, I hate, how slow changing from full screen application to desktop is.
Just a thought. Can anyone else also relate to that?
I can relate, but that's why I then switched :) I was tired of the high ram usage, inherit insecurity of the platform, slow development, their licencing, all of it. Linux was / is the solution to these and my problems
if i was you id: 1. grab my HDD bring it to an other computer turn it into an VHD file using the free tool from Microsoft. 2. install linux on my PC 3. run my old windows as a VM in linux to edit my mouse internal memory
Not all games have that feature. My friend also told me, that there is an application, that gives you borderless windowed option to every game, but it also offsets the buttons, which would drive me crazy.
my laptop is running windows 7 just on idle with my ....few just a few .... browser/ tabs open ... right now for example we are looking at 82% of 8 gb of ram used Firefox x1, 47 tab Firefox X2, 74 tab Firefox X3, 42 tab Midori, 1tab Opera X1, 9 tab Opera X2, 8 tab Google Chrome, 1tab that's before even launching a single game...
Wow, that's a bit of a problem. On idle I have around 60-70 processes running(including mouse software, steam, skype etc) and it's taking up maximum 2.5GB of memory, after finishing everything for single session, it takes up to 4GB of memory out of my 8GB total. Not very mad. I also just reinstalled Windows 7, because reasons and science.
That is one of my gripes with Linux. I have a laptop and use a Logitech M510 mouse with it. I have gotten used to swapping the two thumb buttons to volume up and volume down, apparently this isn't exactly an easy task with Linux. I do miss the driver and application support from Windows as well as the polish it has. It was nice knowing that simple things like my mouse and video drivers were well supported. I also have a gripe about the desktop managers on linux and how unpolished they generally look. The default icons are usually terrible, same goes for applications like GIMP. Windows and Mac OS X seem to get system theming right, but with the drawback of little choice.
So you win some and you lose some. I do think Linux would be a much better platform if we had some better driver and application support from manufacturers however. /rant
That peripherals like mice don't come with software for linux is not an issue, it's a feature!
Who needs more bloatware, when linux can control all the settings of ANY class compliant device (pretty much all mice and keyboards) natively without having to install extra bloatware lolz...
I found this 3rd party tool for configuring Rival mice on Linux: https://github.com/andrepl/rivalctl. I'm not sure if it suits your needs but you can always get involved. Software is build with code not hate or love. If you want to make things work you might need to get your hand dirty.
You find once you switch, with the next iteration of your hardware you stop supporting companies that have these windows only "drivers". Then it tends to become a non-issue.
3 Firefox with side tab(like @wendell) as my main with everything i use. Why 3 windows of Firefox, 3 screen 1 each.
Why all the other browsers? To log on multiple unlinked gmail account at once.
Firefox is logged in a dummy gmail because of when youtube was annoying about real name id. Google, Midori, opera 12.17, opera 28.0 for my normal 4 Emails (and the tabs that are open in those browser are from links in the various email I've receive)