Make more fully metal mice like the magnesium pwnage stormbreaker 8k
Gods, I really hope they consider Linux or at least SteamOS for software support.
Having my Logitech and Corsair mice without the ability to actively rebind anything on my Linux host (without the use of Windows VMs) is painfully annoying.
You can configure Keychron peripherals via their website - Keychron Launcher.
It works on Linux, but there are two caveats:
- Requires Chromium web browser. I’ve tested it with Ungoogled Chromium and it worked fine.
- In some Linux distributions you will have to set up udev rules, to allow access to USB devices
I’ve tested it with my Keychain K3 keyboard and M4 mouse and it works.
I agree a compatibility with ex. Piper would be neat though
They are talking about the firmware that runs on the device. The user front-end to easily configure it is another story. Hopefully it’s going to quickly get support for Linux as they are starting from well established Open-source projects for keyboard firmware (QMK and ZMK). If it works like for keyboards, you will be able to configure your mouse with something like VIA that runs on Chrome/Chromium (and maybe one day Firefox ?) using the WebUSB API.
I have 2 keychon keyboards, an old one and a newer one with QMK firmware. Both have worked perfectly well for Linux. The QMK one is easy to configure with VIA once the device permissions are sorted out.
If it’s open source, there’s roughly a 100% chance someone will make it work on Linux.
QMK VIA
They make mice?
They do. I have had their M6 mouse for a few years.
It’s fairly good but after some time the side-ways scroll wheel failed for me. It also doesn’t track as well on some surfaces as my previous Logitech, but otherwise it’s good.
As if ploopy.co didn’t exist 😞
Still happy to see new open source firmware for mice being developed and implemented in new products. More options is always better.
I think Ploopy’s firmware is straight microcontroller firmware for the RP2040. This Keychron firmware appears to be an OS with wide hw support.
They use QMK, which really is keyboard firmware with added on mouse functionality
I will hope and dream that this might someday lead to more mmo/12-button mice on the market, or at least the ability to customize them without relying on their proprietary software.
I’ve had two of those in the past and really liked them but they died on me too fast.
I’m holding out moving to Linux because of my G600 and G13. I believe G13 driver support is in the making.
This. I greatly prefer mice with a large number of customizable buttons, but they’re something of a rarity and universally use Windows-only software.
On the software side there’s plenty of linux alternatives to the windows only stuff. Not at my computer to check program names, but my 12 side button mouse is just as usable as it was back on windows.
depends on the mouse model, many are not supported or the macro works bit you cannot edit them. Also corsair software had an automatic switch of the macro profile depending on the main window opened, that was amazing, you could always had the right one without doing anything
Same here. My Logitech 602 works fine with… I think it was Piper?
Yep, Piper is what I use with my Logitech G600.
How does piper compare to solaar?
I’m not sure, I never heard of Solaar until you mentioned it!
I find Piper to be excellent though. For my G600 I can control the LEDs, remap the buttons, set the various DPI resolutions and control the report rate. It does everything I used the old Logitech Gaming Software for (fuck Logitech G Hub).
Linux?
I’d be impressed if you could find a mouse that didn’t work on Linux
Their keyboards that are open source firmware were so I would imagine
