I’ve been a happy user of an R.A.T. 4 which is quite an advanced mouse, for about 5 years. It worked fine on Linux too except for the sensitivity reduction push button (these existed back in the day) that needed special Windows only drivers. Unfortunately it broke down a few months ago so I had to switch to a 10+ years old office mouse that I had but it’s not good for any gaming obviously.
So I want to buy a new mouse and a good one. I’m thinking of something like a Dream Machines DM4 Evo S or a Hator Pulsar Essential. These have additional buttons, RGB and, what I’m the most worried about, very high DPI sensors (16k on the DM for example). They seem to use well known components from major manufacturers though and Hator even has official Linux support afaik.
Can I possibly run into any issues with modern gaming mice (specifically the mentioned ones) on Linux? I don’t need any software, macros or RGB effects. I just want the buttons and sensitivity adjustment working so I can use the mouse on my Linux machines. I use Windows for gaming anyways.
I am using a logitech g502 that has pretty much everything you listed as important. 0 issues with it on linux and you can even customise the onboard profiles with piper. Everything on it just works.
Yeah I also have one of these I’ve used on linux for years, it’s always worked perfectly. Better than windows honestly since the one time I made the mistake of booting windows with it connected, windows found some driver that it automatically installed that instantly deleted all of my profiles so I had to go set them up again with piper. I didn’t like that very much, that was the last time I ever booted windows on one of my primary computers