Light Up Your Razer Peripherals In Linux Mint

A tutorial for installing OpenRazer and Polychromatic

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I’ve been slowly building a Linux Mint desk set up in the basement, and this weekend I added an old Razer BlackWidow Lite keyboard and Naga Hex mouse to the mix. As expected, they were plug & play functional out of the box, but the keyboard didn’t have its backlighting enabled. This will not do.