| ▲ | dvdplm 17 hours ago |
| Thank you. I’m constantly baffled by the terrible quality of Logitech’s software. Such great hardware and such horrible software. Very much needed an oss alternative. |
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| ▲ | Retr0id 17 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| I'm also baffled by the quality of their hardware, their mice are all coated in a type of rubber that turns to goop after a few years. |
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| ▲ | Gigachad 16 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | I wish products would just give up on these rubberised materials. They always turn to goop over time. Unless it’s a part designed to be easily user replaced, just stick to hard plastic. | |
| ▲ | userbinator 10 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Likely to be https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyurethane#Hydrolysis_and_bi... | |
| ▲ | SparkyMcUnicorn 16 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | I use the g305, and have to replace it roughly once a year because the scroll button eventually stops working. I've been through 5-6 of them. Regularly on sale for around $25. Wish I could find a better mouse I like as much as this one that I didn't need to pay a yearly subscription for. It's just the right size, lightweight, wireless, and being able to store the customizations to on board memory is nice. | | |
| ▲ | w0m 16 hours ago | parent [-] | | humans are naturally slimy. Anything you touch for 8h/day will be slimy in turn. Some of us are slimier than others. |
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| ▲ | Sindisil 16 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Huh. Haven't experienced that myself, having used a Master MX for several years (now in use by my wife), a VX Revolution for a few years before that (now my son's backpack mouse), and a Master MX Vertical most recently. My son has gone through several other Logi mice as his primary mice, too, but they've died of either worn out switches or feet (he's an avid gamer). Not trying to invalidate your experience -- I've see with my own eyes a similar thing happen with rubberized coatings on laptops & keyboard wrist rests (other's not my own). Just putting it out there that it's by no means the universal experience. | | |
| ▲ | mikkupikku 11 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | They just don't make mice like they used to. I've been playing games with my intellimouse for the better part of 30 years. Baffles me when I hear of people blowing through several mice. | |
| ▲ | Retr0id 15 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | I have wondered if my skin oils are somehow naturally more caustic than average. | | |
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| ▲ | m463 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | not unique to logitech. This happens with my steelseries mice too. I have to clean them with alcohol or something. |
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| ▲ | elxr 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| > Such great hardware Every other mouse brand I've used (razer, hyperx, reddragon, steelseries) has outlasted my logitech-G mice, and felt noticeably better built. Their keyboards are the most generic, nothing-special keyboards for any company of that size. They don't innovate. I will never buy a logitech mouse/keyboard ever, especially with the options we have today. It's so tiring hearing people praise their hardware when they've literally been outcompeted for a decade at this point. Their webcams, and other niche stuff (like flight sticks) may be fine, but their mice/keyboard are below average. |
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| ▲ | hrmtst93837 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Plenty of people buy Logitech out of inertia or just because their devices are everywhere in retail so it's not really about build quality for them. If you care even a little about software customizability or not running weird vendor daemons on your system the alternatives tend to be less miserable to live with long-term. Nobody sane is attached to their keyboard after the third time the RGB config stops working because of some cloud update or USB glitch anyway. | |
| ▲ | cromka 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Interesting! Is there a good, ergonomic mouse that completes with Logitech's MX? I did hear they wear off quickly, which is why I never bought one, but I also never bothered to check for alternatives since everyone said MX is best by far. | | |
| ▲ | elxr 33 minutes ago | parent [-] | | I personally don't enjoy most ergonomic mice, almost entirely because of the weight. I used to be the type of person that liked mice with >3 side buttons and programmable firmware and all that, with a shape that fit my hand, but lately I'm of the mindset that anything that can be done with a keyboard (or voice) should just be done on the keyboard. I enjoy lightweight gaming-focused mice. Just anything cheap and light, and on the go, I just use my trackpad. Absolutely no reason to spend 90 bucks on a mouse unless you do most of your work on a mouse. |
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| ▲ | pineaux 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Thats funny. I have a mx master 3 and its handsdown the best workmouse i have ever had. I work in strange places and the mouse works on every surface. Even glass, mirrors, server doors, skin, pants. I hate the app with a passion and use BTT. |
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