These are the peripherals I'm still using, months and years later

My mouse is an Evoluent Vertical Mouse D, around 4 years old and working perfectly and, my keyboard is a Filco Majestouch 2, zero frills, just a good solid keyboard, approaching 7 years old. Np plans to replace either anytime soon. Took a long time to find the right things for me but, as suggested in the article, no need to replace them just because I can. I have fitted purple keycaps though, because purple, why else?
 
Logitech has become one of those terrible feature pushers.

I've had their mice probably since the very first rectangular three button ball mouse (P7-3F?) and dozens over the decades since then. In fact, I never really had other nice, mostly because I hate changing things my fingers touch: tactile memory is precious, if only because I used to play the piano.

Never as many keyboards, it was (and remains) IBM PS/2 since the 1980's with some Cherry picking in between.

But over the last few years I've come to regret that Logitech mouse dependency, not because of the mice themselves, they remain nice and last nearly forever, but because of the software.

There is simply no reason a mouse driver should a) even exist, b) be hundreds of megabytes in size, c) be so intrusive and annoying

In fact most of that is terrible agentry, which does nothing but spy on you. Even worse, it's downloaded in the newest version, which isn't even compatible with quite a few corded mice I still use any more, so once it's installed to serve a temporary mobile mouse, the principal corded one no longer works.

All that only because I tend to use MX Anywhere 2S for my notebooks whilst I am travelling. And a proper M500 when docked and for all other systems on the cascade of KVMs I need to use for the sprawling mess under, behind and above my desk, close to 20 systems all together. As well as all those others in the family, which obviously also got Logitech mice from the start.

Headsets, don't get me started, because again there are corded on-ear variants, that get me through a work-day full of Teams, but also are best for video or even games in general: I couldn't stand a closed set all day long, and in-ears have me become a monster after pressuring in just the wrong places for too long. And there is the various bluetooth variants, tiny buds mostly for mobile phone, those in-ears I can only tolerate for short times, fully enclosed ones with noise cancelling for where there is noise etc.

Again, because those headsets change on the road (actually more train and some plane), that adds extra devices with all that switching and then there is built-in speakers for the various monitors, Bluetooth stuff and last not least VR headsets which add their own.

Anyhow, if everyone was as bad as Logitech when it comes to add bloatware, I'd have to double-size my machines and/or nothing work still work.

Doing anything but mouse, keyboard or headset should make vendors liable for damages to the point where it really, really hurts. And to think that it's a Swiss company, European and founded around a nice Niklaus Wirth!
 
Logitech has become one of those terrible feature pushers.

I've had their mice probably since the very first rectangular three button ball mouse (P7-3F?) and dozens over the decades since then. In fact, I never really had other nice, mostly because I hate changing things my fingers touch: tactile memory is precious, if only because I used to play the piano.

Never as many keyboards, it was (and remains) IBM PS/2 since the 1980's with some Cherry picking in between.

But over the last few years I've come to regret that Logitech mouse dependency, not because of the mice themselves, they remain nice and last nearly forever, but because of the software.

There is simply no reason a mouse driver should a) even exist, b) be hundreds of megabytes in size, c) be so intrusive and annoying

In fact most of that is terrible agentry, which does nothing but spy on you. Even worse, it's downloaded in the newest version, which isn't even compatible with quite a few corded mice I still use any more, so once it's installed to serve a temporary mobile mouse, the principal corded one no longer works.

All that only because I tend to use MX Anywhere 2S for my notebooks whilst I am travelling. And a proper M500 when docked and for all other systems on the cascade of KVMs I need to use for the sprawling mess under, behind and above my desk, close to 20 systems all together. As well as all those others in the family, which obviously also got Logitech mice from the start.

Headsets, don't get me started, because again there are corded on-ear variants, that get me through a work-day full of Teams, but also are best for video or even games in general: I couldn't stand a closed set all day long, and in-ears have me become a monster after pressuring in just the wrong places for too long. And there is the various bluetooth variants, tiny buds mostly for mobile phone, those in-ears I can only tolerate for short times, fully enclosed ones with noise cancelling for where there is noise etc.

Again, because those headsets change on the road (actually more train and some plane), that adds extra devices with all that switching and then there is built-in speakers for the various monitors, Bluetooth stuff and last not least VR headsets which add their own.

Anyhow, if everyone was as bad as Logitech when it comes to add bloatware, I'd have to double-size my machines and/or nothing work still work.

Doing anything but mouse, keyboard or headset should make vendors liable for damages to the point where it really, really hurts. And to think that it's a Swiss company, European and founded around a nice Niklaus Wirth!
I have multiple G502 mice. I only have the software installed on one machine, because a) it's exactly as you say but b) the mice have profile memories, so all configs can be stored on the mouse and used on a different machine as though the software was installed. This is very useful on tied-down company laptops and you still want tilt wheel left/right to be copy/paste...
 
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Some of my old peripherals:
- Logitech Z-640 5.1 speakers - around 22 years old and I'm still using them
- Eizo L565 17" TFT display - around 23 years old and it still works (stored in my hardware cabinet)
- Blackberry Playbook - 13 years old and I use it for gaming...it has 46 games on it.
- Nintendo Gameboy Advance SP - around 21 years old. It's the limited gold edition that came with The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap. It works and currently one of my granddaughters has it.
 
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I have the Razer Naga X mouse and that thumbpad is great. I don't play competitive FPS or eSports, but it is nice in games to be able to hotkey things like healing potions or other items, or in games with a skill bar to be able to key some of those to the thumbpad is quite helpful. Outside gaming, using the thumbpad for things like the middle mouse button or Windows commands (especially Win+Shift+S)
 
I still use what is the only genuine and true gaming keyboard ever made IMHO, the Merc Stealth. Sadly, they are long discontinued. SteelSeries truly dropped the ball there. Nothing else really compares. All other 'gaming' keyboards are just a regular one that someone has made pretty with RGB and such. A small company called customMK is working to revive the design with their own version of it and I am seriously considering getting one. Pricey, but I think it will be worth it.
 
I still use what is the only genuine and true gaming keyboard ever made IMHO, the Merc Stealth. Sadly, they are long discontinued. SteelSeries truly dropped the ball there. Nothing else really compares. All other 'gaming' keyboards are just a regular one that someone has made pretty with RGB and such. A small company called customMK is working to revive the design with their own version of it and I am seriously considering getting one. Pricey, but I think it will be worth it.
Logitech made the G13 as a macropad, which is pretty similar to what Steelseries was doing with the Merc Stealth. Anyway, I would argue that HE keyboards, at least for FPS, are a pretty big step up from practically anything else that came before them. There's a reason why stuff like snap tap is illegal in a lot of gaming competitions now. A lot of people don't worry about macro use in separate key layouts these days because you can build that into a standard keyboard and save yourself space depending on the use. Moving away from rubber domes is good anyway, there was nothing worse than needing to press 3 or 4 keys at once and one ghosted.
 
There are plenty of keyboard, mice, headsets, and microphones that impress me when I test them, but these are the ones I keep using long after I'm done testing.

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I use Goldtough ergonomic keyboard and mouse. USB hard-wired. Utterly reliable, which is my main criteria for most things. I have used these for decades and I seem to get about 10 years of all day, every day use on them. I'm only on my second of each and both are still working just fine. The only problem with them is that they are so comfortable to use and the keys are so uniform and have such good tactile properties that on the rare occasion when I use someone else's keyboard or mouse they just seem like pathetic toys that you would get from a cereal box.