The standard mouse feature of Apple Magic Mouse 2 can currently work under Linux. The “hid-magic mouse” mainline driver may eventually be expanded to fully support Magic Mouse 2. Magic Mouse 2 was launched half a year ago, and the basic mouse functions can currently use the universal HID interface to input external signals under Linux.
Of course, there have been efforts to see third-party drivers supporting Magic Mouse 2, but the lack of mainline support has always been a problem. The patch submitted for review by the Linux kernel this weekend has been improved on the basis of the hid-magic mouse mainline driver to cover Magic Mouse 2 support.
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The developer John Chen issued a set of four patches not long ago to extend the hid-magic mouse driver to cover Magic Mouse 2 and Magic Trackpad 2, so that battery status reports and other features can work under Linux.
These patches were previously Based on a project hosted by a third-party GitHub. If you want to see better Apple Magic Mouse 2 mainline support on Linux, you can find about 150 lines of patches on the kernel mailing list:
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