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A lot of newer big "gamer" brand peripherals are coming bundled with proprietary software you gotta run to get full functionality.
A friend of mine recently tried Linux and had his scroll wheel not work because it was tired to the software on Windows for some stupid reason...
I saw this trend starting nearly a decade ago when Razers software bricked my Win7 PC by booting before the login screen, I've avoided any devices with mandatory software since, but seems the issue has only grown lately.