143 points

Logitech is a good name for computer peripherals. Logi sounds like underwear or something.

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53 points

To be fair, the company name is still Logitech, just the logo is shorter. I agree that the middle is probably best aesthetically, except that the logo seemed to fade quickly.

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19 points

the logi is shorter

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7 points

buh dmm tss

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4 points

Its proactive. Its provocative.

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2 points

Their support is now at “support.logi.com.” Looks like they may be hocking a logi in the near future.

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30 points

It feels like one of those random Chinese 5 letter brand names.

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5 points

Yeah that just LITTER Amazon? Chogi happy clappy fun time plastic cutting board, allegedly lead and tuberculosis free*!

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16 points

They save ~0.005¢ every time they print it by eliminating all the other letters company-wide.

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I believe they’re called “logicool” in Japan. So maybe it’s some form of logo consolidation.

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82 points

You can see the logos getting worse, in my opinion. I absolutely hate the trend of oversimplifying logos.

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36 points

Eh I would agree but the first one is a weak sub par logo regardless, even if the trend didn’t change it deserved and update. I think the middle one is inoffensive and good, the third one is very grandpa learning the gangnam style dance. Today.

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8 points

It’s such a same though to throw away that uniqueness. It would have been interesting to instead have a skilled firm do an evolution of the original.

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1 point

deserved and update

Ok, I really don’t want this to come across as anything other than curious so please know I just genuinely want to know.

Was “and” deliberately put there or is it just a typo? I see this quite often online and would love to know if I’m seeing a change in language or maybe a regional difference or if it’s just autocorrect.

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3 points

Yeah, devolution rather.

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61 points

Soon it will be “log”, then “lo”, and finally “l”.

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15 points

The big L

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5 points

L

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2 points

F

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6 points

Their gaming brand is just “G”

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1 point

Kinda off topic but the Superlight is sick

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1 point

Agreed, wish the gen 1 had USB-C already

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1 point

So, the whole brand will be LG

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3 points

I love Log!

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50 points

I wish Logitech and all the other big peripheral companies would lose the software. They usually make your keyboard extremely annoying colors unless you install their crap

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15 points

their software is also super bloated. How hard can it be to write a mouse driver? 1 GB for a mouse driver???

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The thing is that 1GB of a “driver” contains about 20 MB of actual mouse driver, but also all the drivers for all their other mice, keyboards, webcams, joysticks, driving wheels, loudspeakers (but why?), headphones, etc.

I like they consolidated their Logi Hub software, but it’s HEAVY.

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When I noted that Logitech started downloading, installing and running a service called Logitech Download Assistant without asking just by pluggning in a mice I realized I had to drop them.

Drivers are fine to push through Windows Update, programs are not.

I am on Xtrfy mice and Ducky keyboards these days, both are excellent and require zero programs to use

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7 points

I swear the side-scrollling wheel on the MX Master is set backwards to how everyone wants it specifically to get people to download the software.

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5 points

Yup! I installed OpenRGB the conpletely uninstalled all my razer and logitech software. Loose a few macros, but i can make AutoHotKey scripts if I need to.

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As a separate download or built in? Any idea if it works with redragon stuff? Redragon software is fucking awful, only nice thing about it is that I almost never have to use it.

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I’ve avoided RGB-lit stuff for everything else, except for my wireless headset. A Logitech G733. In every other respect I love it, but it has bright lights on the front that drain the battery and reflect in my glasses. They default to constantly changing random colors until host software sends a command to control the light. Thankfully there exist tools to control it on Linux (HeadsetControl) but adjustments reset on every power cycle.

The mouse in OP (M510, I’ve had a few of them myself) doesn’t have those problems. There does exist specialized software to manage device pairing for the included “unifying receiver” but it comes by default pre-paired so the software is only particularly helpful for the niche use case of having other wireless logitech devices and wanting to save USB ports by making them all share one receiver.

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3 points

I got a keychron a while back which has been great and doesn’t need proprietary software to program it. I like some pretty lights on my keyboard but that’s it. Not a fan of PC lights or anything else like that

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2 points

Some accessories have onboard storage so you can just download an app one time and then delete it.

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1 point

Solaar on Linux is a godsend

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37 points

I’ve also been buying this same mouse. Once I saw a new one in the store and went, “Wow! They have it in dark gray!”, and bought it. Turns out the old one at my computer was already dark gray.

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