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Razer anything is terrible for Linux. avoid in the future.
Yeah lesson learned lol. I figured, I don't need the fancy features. Turns out volume control is a fancy feature. And I'm not even talking about the volume wheel on the headphones. I'm saying, adjusting my system volume barely affects the headphone volume.
How? Mine have worked fine. At least until today when part of the plastic snapped but they are over 5 years old. Going to try glue it tomorrow.
May look for a replacement sometime, always used wired so far.
On the contrary, I have an old Razer Basalisk v3 mouse, and it works perfectly with linux. I installed openrazer to controll the rgb and everything works perfectly.
that's a pretty basic mouse, but sure.
i’ll never recommend them. just not a Linux friendly company. one can do better
Razer stuff is fine in Linux. I use several different Razer products on Linux and they all work fine, including Arch Linux on my Razer Blade 14 laptop. Their protocols are pretty well understood at this point on most of their devices.
i stopped using them years ago when everything sucked.
if it improved, good, tho clearly not enough for OP.
i'll never recommend them. just not a Linux friendly company. one can do better