in march 2022 i needed a new mouse and bought the endgame gear xm1r and it has developed issues with the scroll wheel that interfere with my kicad work (it randomly jumps up when scrolling down). i found a firmware update that is supposed to address this issue, but it comes as a windows exe, so totally unusable for me, even with wine (wine doesn't seem to support direct USB access). this is the kind of hw design that makes me quite angry, to be honest
![a screenshot of endgame firmware update tool saying stuff like: FIRMWARE UPGRADE, XM1R Not found !, Your product can not be upgraded, There is no supported product detect on your system! If there is a product conencted [sic], please reboot your system. Press exit button to close.](https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/773/128/226/919/438/original/6914c3d1eb2f8eaf.png)
@mntmn this it the reason why I'm getting rid of closed-source peripherals and am replacing them with QMK compatible stuff...
@j4n3z yeah, i'm considering to make our own mouse, or can you recommend a good open one?
@mntmn I run ploopy Trackball, they have mouse model as well. But I had chance to peek into QMK config and it should be fairly easy to repurpose for example RP2040 into a custom mouse 
@j4n3z @mntmn I don’t speak German at all, but I can only guess you’re right. They seem more focused on the hardware part than anything. ^ ^’
Still, I should imagine it’s probably not as obnoxious to deal with.