To be honest, I've never used or heard of a keyboard or mouse that doesn't work with Linux. The space is pretty well standardized so generic drivers work for everything. I don't have experience with keyboard layouts that aren't English QWERTY, though. The safest option would be something basic from a major brand, extra stuff like RGB is not 100% guaranteed to work.
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If the brand is large enough, it's probably already supported by OpenRGB or purpose-made alternative for that brand (OpenRazer, for example). That said, in a lot of cases only rgb changes are supported, and things like rebinding keys/macros is not. Layout doesn't matter, your keyboard doesn't control that
We use QWERTY here too, but we have more letters in our alphabets which makes the keyboards slightly different.
You can reprogram individual keys if you need to in Linux, so even if your preferred layout doesn't exist, you can get what you want working.
I personally use Dvorak, and it hasn't really been an issue. That's pretty mainstream though, so YMMV.
Regardless, I've never even considered Linux support for a keyboard. Some parts may not work, like maybe RGB or macro software, but if you don't need that, the basic keyboard should be absolutely fine and you can tune from there with standard Linux layout tweak tools. If your keyboard supports QMK, I think that works on Linux so you can go wild with that if you like.
Logitech MX Master 3 doesn't work well in Bluetooth mode, at least for me it's unusable. MX Master 2S works great on the same computer. But neither of them supports remapping the extra keys, so I'd say neither of them works 100%.
I have an MX3 and you can map not just keys but per-application macro actions using solaar
I also use MX master 3 via Bluetooth without any problems.
Keychron K4v2 with SonixQMK can be customized to anything you want. I daily it in Linux and windows. I game in Linux, and work in windows (bleh) but I still want Macro's to pass the HID port on my KVM so I just build custom key codes.
Any of the QMK/VIA supported boards are great in linux, so find the layout, and style you want. The K series are the older ones and they require more effort to get QMK running since they run on the Sonix/Evision MCU.
As for mice, i have a Glorious D- because I have small hands, and its fine. I could control it with OpenRGB but I dont care enough and it gets messy with a KVM.
Alrighty nice one!
The Glorious mouse is a pain in the ass. It literally prevents my laptop from booting sometimes when it's plugged in.
Keychron, however, I can back 100%. I have two of their C2 wired mechanicals, one with white backlight and one without. I use the backlit one on my personal gaming machine and use the non-backlit one on my work machine in the office. Sometimes gaming is in the dark but work never is. They make a very well built keyboard. Robust, easy to repair when anything goes wrong.
The glorious was a replacement for my razor death adder which lived up to it's name and died. It was also even worse with Linux and a KVM. Plus it's software was behind required account.
It's fine but I'm just using it as a dumb mouse.
Just chiming in to say that any ISO keyboard can be whatever flavor of ISO you pick, based on your selection in the OS. You may want keycaps to match, but that’s really it, as far as hardware goes.
You can use pretty much any keyboard but I would recommended a keyboard that is not by a major company that has its own property software
I have a corsair k55 and the extra keys on the left they are useless because if your plug this keyboard into a PC that hasn't corsairs icue installed it goes into " compatibility mode " aka the keyboard forgets your custom settings and keybinds
I bought a Havit keyboard which is considered half mechanical a couple of years ago. Maybe they have something similar or even more silent now.
I would like to suggest my wooting keyboard. It is not quiet but i think their switches should qualify as linear. Not sure about the layout but I have the german layout so that might be a "yes"? I have the 100% variant. Sorry, i am not very deep into keyboards.
Their config tool is basically a website, so as long as you have a browser with webusb support on a system it works. Had some problems with the udev rules (most likely a "me" problem), so I used the desktop version instead.
Bonus you get is that the switches are an analog input. So you can change mode to analog and have like "slow walking" in games. Though, I have not tested that yet.
BUT it is hella expensive.
I also have cheap paddles (i think that that is the right word?) off amazon i use often. But the "support" is basically that the config is saved on the device so you config it once in wndows and that was it. I just bound it to random keys once and assign them in games. Would need to dig up what the paddles are called though.
I use g915 tactile, and it works just fine. Noise level depends on how hard you type.
I have never had an issue with keyboards or mice not working, just plug and play
I can also recommend Logitech MX Mechanical as a good alternative.
edit: both piper and openRGB works to control the unicorn vomit. Piper also works to set the macro keys.
Chiming in to say it annoys me that Keychron have cool thinkpad looking keyboards that feature Bluetooth but not a 2.4ghz wireless dongle, I'm on linux you recon my Bluetooth works?
I think any keyboard with qmk/via support will work just fine.
If you want something budget for a mouse, I got the darmoshark m3. It's only $43, 58 grams, works wired, with a dongle, and through Bluetooth, 1000 hz polling rate, and it works out of the box with no software required. It has buttons on the bottom of the mouse to switch DPI and polling rate. Just make sure you set it to 1000 hz since it's set to 500 hz by default I believe