Never had a problem with it. Perhaps people are complaining about the lack of features the proprietary Logitech software provides? I never needed it anyway, so I say mine works perfectly.

I have a Logitech MX Vertical at work. I am running Mint. Never had any problems, worked out of the box. I mostly use it with the dongle which always is plugged in my dock

I use the MX vertical with Linux with zero issues. Every feature works just fine without even installing the logi options software crap.

It works wired, with the 2.4ghz and with bluetooth, all with no issues. I'd expect the lift to be pretty much the same.

I own a Lift and use it with my Mac Book, it's great. I use it with bluetooth but it also has a USB dongle. I uses other wireless logitech mices on GNU/Linux and had no issue using the dongle. I will try to test my Lift on a Linux machine using the dongle and let you know because it would be weird if not working.

I was surprised by this post. Mice are quite simple devices, and I've haven't used of on not working in decades. Logitech in particular are well supported on Linux. Logitech's page for the Lift even specifically mentions Linux compatability.

I do see that systemd broke the mouse support a couple of years ago (of course Poetteringware targeting init would break basic mouse support), but it was quickly fixed.

Perhaps you're referring to this page, and indeed Logitech is adding gestures to their firmware that is apparently problematic across OSes, and because they don't provide software for Linux you can't disable features to "fix" it as you can in Windows. However, that user found a solution for their issue and documents it.

Is the fix intimidating? It's editing some system config files, which with an influx of new Linux users may not be used to.

FWIW, if this mouse interested me, I'd not hesitate to buy it. It looks like the only issue anyone's complained about is related to how the firmware works, is also an issue on Windows, and there's a work around on both systems.

I use Logitech MX Vertical with the solaar software. It works fine.

Razer Pro Click V2 Vertical

Wdym? I have that thing and solaar did a job and work perfectly on my kubuntu

After experiencing wrist pain, really bad, I moved to a vertical mouse. It seemed to help, but I eventually moved to a Kensington Expert trackball and I’ve never looked back. I swear by them.

https://www.amazon.com/Kensington-Expert-Trackball-Mouse-K64325/dp/B00009KH63

I use an Evolulent and a ProtoArc Trackball for vertical mice. I haven’t had any issues with them on Linux, but I also haven’t really customized any of their settings… I think. Maybe I changed what the 2 extra buttons do on them and I don’t recall using anything other than what’s available on Fedora to accomplish that.

I've been using a perixx mouse for ages, no problems.
Only recently started registering 2 clicks instead of one for the roll wheel sometimes.
I'll buy another, whenever this one eventually dies.

I would strongly recommend against them. The design is fundamentally flawed. To click you have to press sideways which naturally moves the cursor a bit causing you to misclick. To compensate you have to tense your hand even more which defeats the point.

How deep is your desk, and what seat are you using? Getting a deeper desk and an expensive mesh-bottomed chair (I have a HM Mira) made waaaaaaay more difference than any of the weird ergonomic keyboards or mice of unusual keyboard layouts I tried.