Do not ever buy peripherals that need some shitty bundled software.
this post was submitted on 24 Aug 2026
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I bought an rgb MMO mouse with 12 buttons on the side, and a double click near the left click for $5 from AliExpress like 13 years ago... no software, has always worked and never failed me.
I've bought 2 Corsair nice, 3 razor mice during that timeframe...all failed, all needed software. all cost $70 or more...
I refuse to buy name brand crap as a result...I bought another identical mouse as a potential backup to the cheap Chinese one. cost increased from $5 to $45. still works better then any 'name brand' crap. I have w cheap Chinese things now that will almost guaranteed last me another 10 years.
I once bought a cheap 3-5€ mouse on aliexpress. That thing lasted ages, and it never missed a beat until it finally broke. And when it did break, the scrollwheel still worked, and it's usually the first thing to break on cheap mice.
It probably helped that the mouse had no stupid rubber that disintegrates in 1 year of use.
It wasn't even a bad mouse. It was lightweight and it had high DPI and a good sensor.
I've never managed to make another mouse last as long, and like you, I've spent close to 100€ on singular mice, which also needed their own crappy software running in the background to work.
The culprit isn't peripherals, sounds like the culprit is microsoft
Sure screw Microsoft, but inpout is dead and blocked by the vulnerable driver blacklist, so it's crazy that official RGB software is still using it.
If you're looking for alternatives but stuck on Windows: OpenRGB doesn't use inpout since 0.9 or even winring0 since 1.0rc2, and works on Linux if you ever plan on switching.
Install Linux and never look back. Using windows is like moving out of your toxic hometown and you go back in 20 years and all the houses are falling apart and everyone who stayed is on drugs and all the stores closed and they combined all the schools because no one lives there anymore