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Keychron announces first open-source firmware for gaming mice (www.digitalfoundry.net)
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[–] 39 points 3 months ago (16 children)

I will hope and dream that this might someday lead to more mmo/12-button mice on the market, or at least the ability to customize them without relying on their proprietary software.

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  • [–] 23 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (8 children)

    This. I greatly prefer mice with a large number of customizable buttons, but they're something of a rarity and universally use Windows-only software.

    eta: or discontinued.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 months ago (7 children)

    On the software side there's plenty of linux alternatives to the windows only stuff. Not at my computer to check program names, but my 12 side button mouse is just as usable as it was back on windows.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago

    depends on the mouse model, many are not supported or the macro works bit you cannot edit them. Also corsair software had an automatic switch of the macro profile depending on the main window opened, that was amazing, you could always had the right one without doing anything

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago (5 children)

    Same here. My Logitech 602 works fine with... I think it was Piper?

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    Yep, Piper is what I use with my Logitech G600.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    How does piper compare to solaar?

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago

    I'm not sure, I never heard of Solaar until you mentioned it!

    I find Piper to be excellent though. For my G600 I can control the LEDs, remap the buttons, set the various DPI resolutions and control the report rate. It does everything I used the old Logitech Gaming Software for (fuck Logitech G Hub).

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (4 children)

    I’m holding out moving to Linux because of my G600 and G13. I believe G13 driver support is in the making.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (1 child)

    Have you tried OpenLogi? I'm not sure if it supports that model specifically, but it supports a lot.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (1 child)

    are you changing settings frequently? if not, settings should be stored on the on board memory and it will continue working on linux

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