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[–] lastunusedusername2 16 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Are there any hardware manufacturers who write good software?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It depends what you call good, but Apple software is usually good, if you agree with their overall approach and philosophy of walled garden.

[–] lastunusedusername2 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

People always say this but I find their software really annoying to use.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Which is their philosophy that you have problems with.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The Apple mouse is one of the most infuriating pieces of technology I have ever used.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

You’re referring to hardware here.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

In terms of hardware: The Apple trackpad is fucking amazing. The Apple Magic Mouse is just fucked.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I haven't used any Logitech gear in a few years, so things may have changed, but after running iCUE...Logitech can't possibly be that bad, right?

[–] lastunusedusername2 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Logitech's software is at least better than Razer's. Although it's not a high bar.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

iCUE would stop my webpages from loading for the longest time, and i had no idea why. I tried so many other things and never even considered iCUE to be the culprit of my extremely slow web surfing.

it wasn't until a friend suggested I delete iCUE that my computer began running like brand new... it was literally a night and day experience. there's no point to my story, other than echoing how horrible iCUE is

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

VKB. Their configuration software is intimidating at first glance (and you better RTFM!), but it's super powerful and allows you to change and tune absolutely everything. Plus the settings are stored in the device so you only need to run the configurator when you want to change something. This is what you get when engineers run the company, not marketing, and they respect the end user's intelligence.