The driver for my mouse occupies over 1 gb

Actual driver code: about 500KB. If that.

I have several Logitech peripherals. Why in the fuck does it need AI?!?!

We live in the age of bloated software.

We detected you moved your mouse. Downloading 1GB of AI telemetry and 3GB of user experience optimizations…

maybe this will help, if you wanted to ditch the logi driver:

https://github.com/pwr-Solaar/Solaar

Solaar is a Linux manager for many Logitech keyboards, mice, and other devices that connect wirelessly to a Unifying, Bolt, Lightspeed or Nano receiver as well as many Logitech devices that connect via a USB cable or Bluetooth. Solaar is not a device driver and responds only to special messages from devices that are otherwise ignored by the Linux input system.

Fuck electron, fuck "web first" apps, fuck the "all application in the future will be websites" mentality.

The driver for your mouse occupies a few kilobytes. The shitty app and AI garbage bloatware occupies the rest.

Use the offline installer, which is for offline and airgapped machines. It turns off the AI prompt builder as well as all the telemetry shite:

https://support.logi.com/hc/en-us/articles/11570501236119-Logitech-Options-offline-installer

wtf AI in your mouse driver?

Oh yeah, totally not logging your every mouse movement, no sir, not at all!

i wonder if a open source driver alternative exists.

The mouse driver used with the Commodore 64's GEOS operating system uses 3 blocks on disk, less than a kilobyte.

That's not the driver but some bundled configuration & update bloatware.

Back in my days, you had to overwrite some .exe with a "0" to disable Nvidia from spying on you. The overwrite, because they would just download it again if you deleted the .exe.

+1 for using space sniffer. It's the best of such apps I've found. Unfortunately doesn't seem to get updated any more.

Saving this to share at work. What an abomination that, I am sorry you have to deal with it

The driver:

what the fuck?? why would a mouse need ai? ancient computer user here who is very confused lol

Please don't be Logitech, please don't be Logitech...

Damnit.

The software, afaik there is no actual driver involved.

The driver consumes a few KB. The bullshit software that you don't need to install is what's consuming the GB.

X mouse button control

It can't detect some of the fancier buttons and gestures but it can often pickup buttons 4 and 5 for remapping, and it does chording and long press options to give you multiple functions without any AI bullshit.

My first mouse driver was smaller than the picture you attached to this post

Baaack in my day we got a driver for our mouse on a single DD floppy...

Input Remapper on linux can get the job done without the need for this junk. I've used it for this exact purpose before.

you could use autohotkey and remap mouse3/4 (or whatever they are) to C-c and C-v

Space Sniffer gang represent!

I like SpaceSniffer, it is almost 10 years old program and I still use it

My installation process for a new mouse is as follows: 1 - Attempt to plug it in. 2 - Flip the USB connector. 3 - Plug it in. 4 - Use the mouse.

Is there anything at all to be gained from installing the software that comes with the mouse? Even with extra side buttons, I've never had anything not work out of the box.

Edit: OP is remapping buttons. Got it.

The driver itself is probably a few megabytes only. The rest is just bullshit in the name of rgb control and preset/dpi control. You seem to be using a Logitech device, you can enable the onboard memory of your mouse, then uninstall this thing and use Logitech's Onboard Memory Manager app instead.

Narrator: It wasn't a driver.

Madness

I love this program by the way!!!

Anyone have other brand suggestions?

LOL.

Huh, neat