Today I had the most Windows-like hassle free experience on Linux when...

07 December 2024, 02:06:56

...buying new peripherals.

I bought a cheap offbrand Chinese gayming mouse today. It worked fine plugged just as is, but it has a windows utility that controls the mouse firmware so for shits and giggles I installed that in wine, and when I launched it, I expected it to crash randomly or just not detect the mouse at all.

But it actually did work. And when I changed some settings I noticed the mouse was being reprogrammed! Never expected this kind of stuff to work with wine...

This is the piece of shit in question: https://redragon.pl/products/myszka-m812-rgb-plank/
Yes, it's all in Polish, but actually this is just a front "brand" that imports cheap shit from China and slaps it's logo onto it. If you look through the firmware utility (red button that says "Pobierz sterowniki" > "Download drivers") you'll see that it's riddled with Chinese characters.

Re: Today I had the most Windows-like hassle free experience on Linux when...

Reply #1 – 08 December 2024, 00:26:26

Wine to the rescue! They sure have accomplished a lot.