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[โ€“] [email protected] -1 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Any computer mouse, frankly.

The sad thing is when I bought my first gaming mouse in the mid 2000s it was a Razer and that thing ran great for almost 10 years. I only replaced it because after handling it for that many years it was worn and kinda gross.

I replaced it with a Razer that went sure enough went faulty after a year. I then tried other brands (name and no-name). I've never had a mouse last me 18 months before it started to go faulty. It really feels like they all colluded a planned obsolescence. Even my current mouse, a Zowie FK3-C, has begun to drop the mouse input when i click and hold the left button. I bought this in June 2023!!

I still like the Zowie a lot, it has great features like a button to toggle the refresh rate without the need for installing dumb software to set it. But it's been 10 years of this shit, for me, so I will never recommend a computer mouse to anyone. Just use the one that you get from your office job, I guess.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Always been happy with Logitech. But I switched the software to SteerMouse since Logitech jumped on the AI train.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Man, Logitech all the way. I've only had to replace one or maybe two with 8-hr/day, 5 days a week constant usage

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Been using a cheapass dell mouse we got free with our servers for about a decade now and it's great.

I've had Razrs, expensive assed MS nostalgia grabs, Kensingtons of every configuration, Logitech of both gaming and office models and nothing has been as accurate and problem free as this cheap assed dell server mouse.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Well that's cause one is made to look fancy and make money, the other is meant to do its job

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

I'd argue that it's more of a 'If we don't send them something to get bootstrapped, the customers will complain, so throw in a cheap kbd and mouse and stick our logo on it', but they JUST happened to be SLIGHTLY less cheap than everyone who makes 'gaming' mice.

I'm under no illusions, it's a really cheap mouse, just its one that has a good sensor.

Mainly I have it because it was free and we had a closet filled with a few hundred of them.

I used to have an old MS Pro mouse that was literally my favorite pointing device EVER made but it was SD resolution so useless in modern machines, and the cash grab piece of crap that MS just re-released a few years ago to get a piece of that sweet nostalgia pie was worse than any razr I've ever used.

I just want to click on heads and it's crazy that gaming mice are so poorly made nowadays that free server mice are objectively better.