Sick of Logitech JUNK - recommendations please

beckler

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Begin rant. Currently have old G15 keyboard, G933 headset, G9x mouse. Several others too that I don't use regularly. All of it, and especially 'logitech gaming software' is utter garbage. I give up on it.

New 933 headset has terrible design overall. It actually has some sharp edges and corners on it, above the earcups and in vicinity of headband - this is how clueless they are in designing this stuff. All the custom buttons are completely useless because their primary design requirement - that they be usable without looking at them - is a failure; you can't differentiate them by touch. Junk. Other problems, for example the equalizer setting won't keep my choice. I've unassigned any button to it, and unchecked everything else but it just doesn't work. Mic placement and design is bad.

G9X mouse every few months for no reason, will reset profiles, like it just did now. Maybe it's the software. Speaking of the idiotic LGS. What slow, clunky trashware. Everything is random and scattered. How about instead of the pointless flashy animated menus and buttons, and gigantic image of your device that fills up entire screen for no reason, they design it logically so it's clear what the hell you're doing and what your devices are set to do without clicking through 2400 random buttons and screens.

Anyway that's all irrelevant. Which brand do I switch to, to get stuff that actually works and is intelligently designed?
 
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Personally I find the Steelseries software is pretty good, and to be honest they are all pretty bad. It seems to go with that "gamer" aesthetic that we want fancy overly complicated interfaces? No, most of us probably don't. Anyways...despite the elegance software wise of choosing a single brand I've gone with multiple in order to meet my hardware requirements (I mean I hopefully only configure this once...right?). So my choices after many years of trying different things are Steelseries Apex for the KB (many macro keys...yes many...more please?), Roccat Nyth for the mouse (Ooooh look! More buttons! Now with less terrible software!) and a simple Turtle Beach X12 headset (I can hear you? You can hear me? good.) and no software...

SammChisnall

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My Recommendations would be:

Keyboard: Corsair K** series, solid build quality, tactile keys and RGB lighting with extremely easy to use software.
Mouse: Razer Deathadder/SteelSeries Rival 700.
Headset: --- Be interesting to see what people recommend as my Charcarias is on its way out and im stuck between Razer/Corsair/HyperX....Probably going to go with the Razer Man O' War though.
 
I have G15 keyboard too and wouldn't swap it because... lcd screen.
Logitech software I don't really use though so can't comment on that.
I would suggest logitech performance MX mouse but.. you don't want logitech so that is out.

I've had good time with Sennheiser PC360 headphones though, I can recommend those.
 
Personally I find the Steelseries software is pretty good, and to be honest they are all pretty bad. It seems to go with that "gamer" aesthetic that we want fancy overly complicated interfaces? No, most of us probably don't. Anyways...despite the elegance software wise of choosing a single brand I've gone with multiple in order to meet my hardware requirements (I mean I hopefully only configure this once...right?). So my choices after many years of trying different things are Steelseries Apex for the KB (many macro keys...yes many...more please?), Roccat Nyth for the mouse (Ooooh look! More buttons! Now with less terrible software!) and a simple Turtle Beach X12 headset (I can hear you? You can hear me? good.) and no software (configured through various chat programs my server seems to like. Anyways...these choices are subjective and mine...this junk may not work for you but perhaps I've given you some ideas. Cheers!
 
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