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Not gonna lie, one of the nice (unintended I'm sure) consequences of no one making software for Linux is the extremely wide range of hardware drivers built-in. I've never had a mouse (and a bunch of other hardware) not work on Linux in the last 15 or so years.


Windows have built-in driver(s) for all the mouses too. You can just ignore these additional software and they work fine (as fine it gets in Linux, of course. Some additional feature may not work.)


Every single mouse supports the USB HID spec and will just work on any OS. The drivers let you configure macro keys, scroll speeds, rgb lights, dpi and other stuff which you just don't get to do on linux.




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