Weird. I use a Das Keyboard and a $10 logitech mouse. I've never had any problems with mouse or keyboard on linux, ever.
They have always 'just worked'.
Is everyone with these stories using some obscure hardware which requires propietary windows drivers and/or some obscure distribution or something?
I'm not trying to be snarky or dismissive, but I've been using Linux for the last 14 years and I've never had any of these problems people talk about with regard to basic input devices or audio drivers.. even when I went through my Gentoo phase.
I have a fancy Logitech G500 (which is odd, because this mouse started as a cheapo MX510 and RMAs made it better and better over the years... haha, Logitech tech support is amazing and I always buy their stuff) and I'm surprised KDE recognizes all the buttons out of the box.
I also converted entirely from a Windows-only XP world, to a hybrid Ubuntu / 7 for gaming setup, and now I'm just running Arch only. I always got my pointer acceleration to align perfectly between them.
Hell, even the DPI switching on the G500 works. I think it is built into the mouse, though.
No, I've never had to download some weird proprietary driver for windows, keyboard or mouse. Doesn't work to me on vanillia ubuntu, dug around for a few hours trying to find a solution before just giving up and uninstalling.
The lack of games is my main issue - if that was solved, I may go buy a keyboard that works on linux :p
g400 (which is disappointing because my mx518 had no troubles on linux)
noppoo choc mini (only the new ones, the old ones work fine on linux). The keyboard at least is a solvable problem, and the weirdness is in large part due to the weird firmware which sort of pretends to be two keyboards. I found a fix for OSX, but was unable to figure out how to get it work in linux in under an hour. So, I just got an older keyboard for work where I have to use linux, and went back to using only windows at home.
I'd love to be in a situation where people who made peripherals made them work on linux in addition to windows, but that's not the way things work atm :(
They have always 'just worked'.
Is everyone with these stories using some obscure hardware which requires propietary windows drivers and/or some obscure distribution or something?
I'm not trying to be snarky or dismissive, but I've been using Linux for the last 14 years and I've never had any of these problems people talk about with regard to basic input devices or audio drivers.. even when I went through my Gentoo phase.