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Give it any explanation you want, in Linux I can plug in 3 mice in 3 different USB ports and they all work immediately without any "recognising and configuring"
by Aardwolf 11y ago
Give it any explanation you want, in Linux I can plug in 3 mice in 3 different USB ports and they all work immediately without any "recognising and configuring", so it should be technically possible for Windows to also have it work immediately.
- smilekzs 11y agoHave you actually tried plugging them when running Windows? They might actually do okay.
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- cabirum 11y agoYes, but then you realize you cannot make mouse back-forward buttons to work.
- hackmiester 11y agoI'm a little confused on this - my G500 "requires Windows drivers" but this functionality worked out of the box on Linux.
- cabirum 11y agoDepends on the distro, I guess. The last time I checked these buttons were not enabled by default on Fedora. Ubuntu probably has more sane defaults.
- anon4 11y agoMicrosoft really picked the wrong abstraction here. They wanted it so that each device can be separately configured and known, implementing a system that can support if you plug ten devices that are exactly the same, but want them configured differently. Whereas on linux, it's more like "if I plug in a logitech xyz mouse, I want it working like so". Ultimately, I think not even power users have much use for this behaviour being the default, but it's too late to change it on Windows. Maybe if they let you define a set of devices for which you WANT settings to be keyed by port+device, whereas the rest you want keyed only by device type.