I have a Mastermouse MM530 by Cooler Master at the moment, bought on the basis of its “sturdy” build, but the mouse wheel has been playing up for a while now, occasionally scrolling down when I’m in fact scrolling up.

I’m not even looking for a gaming mouse, just a decent mouse with a clickable scroll wheel. More buttons is nice, but not needed. Any tips?

  • @talEnglish
    1•2 months ago

    You can always just not use them but I’ve found the buttons on top incredibly useful as an undo/redo pair and makes working in anything so much nicer.

    The “two extra” buttons seem to have been mostly used for “forward/back”.

    I use a tiling window manager in Linux these days, so I don’t drag windows, but back when I was using a non-tiling window manager last, I set up one mouse button to be “drag window” in my window manager, so that one could just grab a window anywhere rather than on the title bar to move it. That was definitely convenient, and I’d bet that there’s a way to accomplish that in other windowing environments as well.