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I wish not to tinker 3 days to setup my mouse.

• RealStickman_ 5y ago
  Installing piper on linux and using it to configure your mouse will most likely be faster than using the manufacturer's software. Also no tinkering required if your mouse is supported by libratbag.
• tialaramex 5y ago
  The nature of these devices is that they're HID compliant but Microsoft lets them get away with demanding you should "improve" things by installing extra software on Windows. Because they're HID compliant they do just work out of the box (on Windows or on Linux). In Linux there is no "Oh! Oh! Install this proprietary bullshit to wring more money out of you. Please. Please! Come on, spare a few bucks!" step. If you don't want to do any tinkering the mouse Just Works™ But if you wish the little features worked, like apparently changing LED light colours, you can install third party software. At that point yes you are tinkering, but you aren't dealing with constant appeals to please let it change your default web browser, or whatever like in Windows, so that still seems like you're ahead. I'm astonished Microsoft didn't just outright ban this nonsense. It's an awful user experience compared to Linux where all this stuff Just Works and Windows could have that too, not with more engineering work but with less by simply not allowing this crap.
• kop316 5y ago
  ?? https://github.com/libratbag/piper https://github.com/libratbag/piper it's a GUI app, it looks pretty nice. It's also in the Debian repos, so you can just install it with "apt install piper" Looks pretty simple to me.