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Logitech software is a dumpster fire. For a while there it would start and go to 170-190% CPU and just burn until it was killed.

I share your experience and frustration.

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Logi Options Daemon uses 4% CPU on a 2017 15" MacBook Pro while my MX Master 2S is moving. I wonder wtf it's doing the whole time.

Sending your cursor position to DynamoDB

Companion software for hardware accessories has historically been terrible. I can't recall an instance where I wanted to keep companion apps besides drivers running in the background.

Whenever possible I would only open them for as long as I needed to configure something, then killed the process if it wasn't necessary.

Thankfully on the Mac I haven't encountered a need for those yet.

I'm so glad linux usually contains reverse engineered drivers that are open source so everything just works out of the box with logitech.

It really is quite incredible the unrewarded, often thankless (except that which we're doing now) effort that must go into that.

I had an issue recently with missing drivers for a network card (my fault, I deleted the kernel modules, it had been and now is again working), and it just made me think exactly what you're saying, how glad I am that someone's provided this.

I’d include Razer in the dumpster fire pile. In my estimation, the custom drivers of most HID products seem to be as bad as printer drivers back in the late 1990s/early 2000s. Actually worse because of all the RGB nonsense and cloud bullshit.

I use a razer orbweaver as a macro keyboard, and even though its still for sale it doesn't work with the current version of Synapse. So if you have an orbweaver and another peripheral, you need to run both synapse 2 and 3.

Instead I just stopped buying razer products.

This is why I’m using a $10 anker vertical mouse with whatever defaults drivers windows finds. Cuts right thought the bloat. Also works on Linux/OS X.

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