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by beebeepka 1550 days ago
This is unfortunate. Can't do simple things easily, or at all, unless you boot windows. My mouse looked like Christmas tree until I installed some electron app on windows.

There has to be a better way without the need to hack everything

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There was a better way until Samsung decided we're not worth their business.

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/samsung_magician-consumer...

There's still a better way where they do think so — "enterprise" SSDs:

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/samsung-ssd-dc-toolkit

Vote with your pocket, support vendors that do care.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Solid_state_drive#Firmware

> My mouse looked like Christmas tree until I installed some electron app on windows.

At least solaar exists for Logitech stuff. Too bad it's still not something Logitech provides, but the reverse engineering work of some volunteers.

https://pwr-solaar.github.io/Solaar/

I thought linux users wanted to be HaX0rs :p
It'd be nice if companies didn't necessitate installing a completely different operating system just to make your mouse not look like a rave. Thankfully, some open source projects are gaining the proper functionality to replace the awful lighting configuration software most manufacturers provide.
I don't mind being a "HaX0r" if it means fiddling around with configs and code on my own system. That's not what's happening here though.