The 'Razer DeathAdder Chroma' is quite possibly the nicest mouse I've ever owned

After my wireless mouse finally stopped charging anything and the temporary £5 replacement mouse was just terrible, I decided to take a look at the Razer DeathAdder Chroma.

I went with Razer since they are generally a brand that's well known and known for reasonably good hardware. Luckily on Linux, we don't have to deal with their terrible software (I've seen first-hand how terrible their Windows software can be).


I suffer from a permanent injury in my main hand/wrist, which hurts the longer I use a mouse, but surprisingly the DeathAdder Chroma is incredibly comfy. One of the features is "Ergonomic Shape" and they certainly aren't lying about it. It's been a real pleasure to use for both work and play and really does the job perfectly. This has been the longest my hand hasn't been annoyingly painful after prolonged mouse-use in years.

It fits the hand well and the material doesn't feel cheap. Many mice have awful solid and cold basic plastic, whereas the DeathAdder Chroma has a slightly rough feeling to it which also gives it a good bit of grip in your hand for the more intense gaming sessions. The rubber side grips also help dramatically with this, it gives me a real feeling of actual control over it.

It doesn't come with hundreds of useless buttons attached to it to give it some ridiculous "MMO" or "gamer" label, but it does have two extra buttons on the side. Personally, I find those two extra buttons extremely useful for web browsing as forwards/backwards buttons, and as handy extras in online FPS games for things like throwing a grenade. Their button placement for the extra side buttons is right on the mark too, ample room to rest your thumb with minimal movement needed to access the extra buttons.

It has a 10,000dpi optical sensor, which is incredibly smooth and precise. I've tried it on a number of different surfaces and it's had no issues at all. A problem I had with my last two mice in FPS games was where the sensor seemed to bounce off tiny crumbs, dust and whatever else my desk had on it, making my aim all over the place. My testing with the Razer DeathAdder Chroma shows just how good the sensor is, with crazy accuracy and no random twitches.

While I'm not really fussed about the lighting on the mouse wheel and the back of the mouse, it's still a nice touch and it is perfectly configurable on Linux. With thanks to the 'razercfg' tool, adjusting colours, DPI and more is incredibly easy. I used the Arch AUR-git package and it made the setup a breeze, I just had to enable it afterwards with systemd without issues.

An absolute world of difference compared to the various mice I've had before. I highly recommend it. Mine was on sale too in a local store, so double win there. Well worth the money in my books. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.