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Replacement for MX Master 3? (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 3 weeks ago by boonhet@sopuli.xyz to c/mousereview@sh.itjust.works

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Long story short, despite living in a detached home with not too much 2.4 GHz noise, my Logitech unifying receiver has trouble with my mouse at 20 centimeters from the receiver. Keyboard at roughly 7-8 centimeters range has less trouble, but not none.

I can't be arsed to get an USB extension cord or anything. This is a stupid-ass problem. I want to replace them with something new. What mouse would you suggest that's ergonomic, but not too expensive? I'd say 150€ is the absolute limit, but would prefer under 100€. Mouse should be wireless as I have a tendency of moving it around. It's just the Unifying Receiver tripping me up - I've not had much trouble with other wireless mice in the past, and the same mouse works completely fine on Bluetooth as far as range is concerned, but it's a pain to reconnect on Linux for some reason or another.

I do a little gaming, but mostly software engineering. Precision isn't as important as comfort. I also don't want to get something uber weird shaped, it should still look and feel like a mouse ideally.

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[–] minimalfootprint@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

Razer recently released their Pro Click V2 with resembles the Master.

Keychron also dipped their toe into mice and released the M6.

I'm not that familiar with either, but more competition for the outdated Logitech design is good in my book.

[–] PennyRoyal@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 weeks ago

That M6 looks pretty dope. I love my K7 keyboard, and wouldn’t mind a matching rodent

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 1 points 3 weeks ago

Ooh, the Pro Click V2 sounds exciting. I've never owned a Razer product before, but it does seem to have better range and can be used in wired mode apparently?

Keychron sounds like a backup option, but no wired mode (same as Logitech). Would prefer to have Wired mode as a backup for when all my wireless stuff just doesn't want to work some days.

I'll see about getting one or the other probably. Pro Click V2 seems very new, no RTings review yet for the regular version and not available in my country yet, but it's on Deutsche Amazon so that would still work probably.

[–] uranibaba@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

No Bluetooth?

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Hmm, actually if I only use the mouse and get a wired keyboard, that might work. Trouble is, I have to forget and re-pair them any time I switch devices and switch back, even though I use the 3 different connection profiles. Not a huge issue for the mouse as I don't need it to reconnect, but I do need the keyboard. So it's kinda hard to use the keyboard to connect to the keyboard over the command line (since no GUI tool seems to work reliably either, I honestly have no idea tf is going on here, I've given up debugging Bluetooth on Linux, I got my BT LE headphones working and now I don't want to touch ANY settings)

I have a thunderbolt 4 hub monitor that I have the Unifying Receiver connected to, and it's connected to my desktop 24/7, plus 2 laptops on demand. It's ridiculously convenient because as soon as I switch video input source on the monitor, my keyboard and mouse switch over to the proper computer. Ideally this is what I want to keep doing, just with a different dongle than the crappy Unifying Receiver for the mouse. Keyboard can get a cable, reduce the 2.4 GHz noise a bit.

[–] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 1 points 3 weeks ago

I found simply making the receiver sit vertically (as in black part up, connection down) made mine work far better for my desktop, even when it was 40cm away.