Louis-Philippe Véronneau - mousehttps://veronneau.org/2018-12-11T00:00:00-05:00Razer Deathadder Elite Review2018-12-11T00:00:00-05:002018-12-11T00:00:00-05:00Louis-Philippe Véronneautag:veronneau.org,2018-12-11:/razer-deathadder-elite-review.html<p>After more than 10 years of use and abuse, my old Microsoft IntelliMouse died a
few months ago. The right click had been troublesome for a while, but it became
so broken I couldn't reliably drag and drop anymore.</p>
<p>It's the first mouse I kill and I don't know if …</p><p>After more than 10 years of use and abuse, my old Microsoft IntelliMouse died a
few months ago. The right click had been troublesome for a while, but it became
so broken I couldn't reliably drag and drop anymore.</p>
<p>It's the first mouse I kill and I don't know if I have to feel proud or troubled
by that fact. I guess I'm getting old enough that saying I've used the same
mouse for 10 years strait sounds reasonable?</p>
<p>I considered getting a new IntelliMouse, as Microsoft is reviving the brand, but
at the price the 3.0 model was selling in August (~70 CAD), better options were
available.</p>
<p><img src="/media/blog/2018-12-11/mouse.jpg" title="Picture of the mouse" alt="Picture of the mouse" height="30%" width="30%" style="float:left"></p>
<p>After shopping online for a while, I ended up buying the Razer Dethadder Elite.
Despite the very <em>gamer oriented</em> branding, I decided to get this one for its
size and its build quality. I have very large hands and although I'm more of a
"Tip Grip" type of person, I occasionally enjoy a "Palm Grip".</p>
<p>I have been using the mouse for around 3 months now and the only thing I really
dislike is its default DPI and RGB settings. To me the DPI buttons were
basically useless since anything beyond the lowest level was set too high. </p>
<p>The mouse also has two separate RGB zones for the scroll wheel and the Razer
logo and I couldn't care less. As they are annoyingly set to a rainbow-colored
shuffle by default, I turned them off.</p>
<p>Although Razer's program to modify mouse settings like DPI levels and RGB colors
doesn't support Linux, the mouse is supported by <a href="https://openrazer.github.io/">OpenRazer</a>. Settings are
stored in the mouse directly, so you can setup OpenRazer in a throwaway VM, get
the mouse the way you want and never think about that ever again.</p>
<p>Let's hope this one lasts another 10 years!</p>