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I already have a forever mouse. A Microsoft optical mouse from 20 years ago. Perfectly ergonomic, no batteries, plug-and-play that just works on any device new or old, and a build quality to last decades. How have we regressed from these ideals and gotten to where we are?

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The quest for recurring revenue? Who is driving that? MBAs?

With a basic Logitech gaming mouse from a few years ago, it had the simple default RGB effects at all times, Windows, Linux, even DOS.

Recently on Windows 11 there was a firmware update from Logitech and now the RGB is controllable from W11 built-in FX interface.

But no more RGB at all when you reboot to Linux ever since.

I thought that was going to last forever, guess I was wrong.

Turned out to be quite a dark mouse most of the time.

If you haven’t already, check if OpenRGB supports it.

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