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Sunshine piefed.ca Sunshine@piefed.ca
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There’s polish Goodram for the ssd and ram, German Recable and Swedish Supra for the cables and Latvian Mikrotik and German Fritz for the router. German CachyOS for the OS, Belgian Servo for browsing and polish GOG for the games.

How about:

  • Desktop Tower
  • Power supply
  • Motherboard
  • Thermal Paste
  • Monitor
  • Keyboard
  • Mouse
  • Headphone
  • Microphone
  • Cooling
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petrescatraian libranet.de petrescatraian@libranet.de
Joined: 2026-02-16
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@Sunshine There's also Logitech for mice, keyboard and headphones

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PonyOfWar pawb.social PonyOfWar@pawb.social
Joined: 2023-06-12
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Noctua is an Austrian company making excellent coolers/fans and thermal paste.

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flamingo_pinyata sopuli.xyz flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz
Joined: 2023-08-17
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Cooling: Noctua is Austrian
Headphone & Microphone: Sennheiser

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halfapage lemmy.world halfapage@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-20
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petrescatraian libranet.de petrescatraian@libranet.de
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Cooling: Noctua is Austrian Headphone & Microphone: Sennheiser

Also, Jabra which is from Denmark if I'm not mistaken (for headsets and microphones). And we have Meze as well from Romania

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flamingo_pinyata sopuli.xyz flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz
Joined: 2023-08-17
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CubitOom infosec.pub CubitOom@infosec.pub
Joined: 2023-06-08
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I love Fractal Design cases. I've not tried their other products but they also make

  • Chairs
  • Headsets
  • Fans
  • Water Cooling
  • Power Supplies

Not sure where any of these are actually manufactured however.

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macniel feddit.org DmMacniel@feddit.org
Joined: 2024-06-22
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@Sunshine There's also Logitech for mice, keyboard and headphones

Logitech is pretty anti consumer though.

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skarn discuss.tchncs.de skarn@discuss.tchncs.de
Joined: 2023-06-24
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Logitech is pretty anti consumer though.

How? Honest question.

I personally am a happy customer, as I have 4 of their mid-range gaming mice (mx510, mx518, G502, G500) bought in years between 2003 and 2021, and they're all still working.

Never touched their software since moving to Linux in late 2006 though, so I guess maybe that's bad?

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encelado748 feddit.org encelado748@feddit.org
Joined: 2026-02-01
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STmicroelectronics and Infineon are the only one I can think of. I use STm boards for embedded projects

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Davel23 fedia.io Davel23@fedia.io
Joined: 2024-03-16
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Steelseries is Danish, for keyboards, mice, headsets, and other assorted peripherals.

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anewfox lemmy.zip anewfox@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2026-08-07
#13 · (edited) Quote Reply

so basically the answer is no, unless you want a tricked out desk and an empty pc case.

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sbird Member scallisto
Joined: 2026-09-14
#14 · (edited) Quote Reply

Desktop cases, you have be quiet! πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ, Fractal Design πŸ‡ΈπŸ‡ͺ, and a few others too (not made in Europe as far as I understand)

Power supply, you have be quiet! and Fractal (again, not made in Europe I think)

Dunno about motherboard

Arctic πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ produces thermal paste, as well as liquid coolers and fans, but not made in Eurppe. Noctua πŸ‡¦πŸ‡Ή is higher quality for coolers, but don't think they make stuff in Europe either

Dunno about monitors, keyboards (build a custom one and support local suppliers maybe?), and mice.

Sennheiser πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ makes awesome wired headphones, the HD 550 are pretty good value I think. They also produce lots of great microphones (the Profile is a USB one). Fairphone πŸ‡³πŸ‡± are the gold standard for wireless audio, replaceable battery and easily repairable parts! The Fairbuds 2 look awesome and the (second gen) Fairbuds XL are also very good. Rode is Aussie πŸ‡¦πŸ‡Ί but they also produce good mics.

edit: EGG (End Game Gear) is based in Germany πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ and they make esport-centric mice.

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halfapage lemmy.world halfapage@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-20
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STmicroelectronics and Infineon are the only one I can think of. I use STm boards for embedded projects
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randombullet programming.dev randombullet@programming.dev
Joined: 2023-07-26
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Desktop Tower

  • Fractal Design is my favorite anyways
  • bequiet is German

Power supply

  • bequiet

Motherboard

  • hard to say since all I know are from Taiwan or China

Thermal Paste

  • Thermal Grizzly is already a top tiered thermal paste
  • Noctua NT-H2 is also very good

Monitor

  • LC Power

Keyboard

  • Cherry obviously
  • SteelSeries

Mouse

  • Cherry as well
  • SteelSeries

Headphone

  • Sennheiser
  • beyerdynamic
  • SteelSeries

Microphone

  • Sennheiser
  • SteelSeries

Cooling

  • Noctua
  • Bequiet
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macniel feddit.org DmMacniel@feddit.org
Joined: 2024-06-22
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How? Honest question. I personally am a happy customer, as I have 4 of their mid-range gaming mice (mx510, mx518, G502, G500) bought in years between 2003 and 2021, and they're all still working. Never touched their software since moving to Linux in late 2006 though, so I guess maybe that's bad?

That's their issue why they are (were) considering the Forever Mouse as a subscription. And second their wireless keyboards have batteries that are not user /non destrucive serviceable.

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skarn discuss.tchncs.de skarn@discuss.tchncs.de
Joined: 2023-06-24
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That's their issue why they are (were) considering the Forever Mouse as a subscription. And second their wireless keyboards have batteries that are not user /non destrucive serviceable.

Some of their wireless keyboards. I have a K380 that I use sometimes, and that one has AAA.

But I also never really saw the point of a wireless keyboard..

But yeah, no mouse as a service for me. I already have the Forever Mouse, it's the MX518 πŸ˜…

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encelado748 feddit.org encelado748@feddit.org
Joined: 2026-02-01
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Yes, Germany france and italy

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marilynia discuss.tchncs.de marilynia@discuss.tchncs.de
Joined: 2023-07-01
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Desktop cases, you have be quiet! πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ, Fractal Design πŸ‡ΈπŸ‡ͺ, and a few others too (not made in Europe as far as I understand) Power supply, you have be quiet! and Fractal (again, not made in Europe I think) Dunno about motherboard Arctic πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ produces thermal paste, as well as liquid coolers and fans, but not made in Eurppe. Noctua πŸ‡¦πŸ‡Ή is higher quality for coolers, but don't think they make stuff in ...

Dunno about monitors, keyboards (build a custom one and support local suppliers maybe?), and mice

Logitech is European enough (swiss)

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sbird Member scallisto
Joined: 2026-09-14
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Dunno about monitors, keyboards (build a custom one and support local suppliers maybe?), and mice Logitech is European enough (swiss)

Logitech is alright for some stuff, but it's random chance whether you get e-waste that breaks in the next couple years or something that lasts a decade.

Actually, just thought of one, if you want wired mice, End Game Gear (EGG for short) is good, they are based in Germany πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ, they do wireless mice too but dunno about the quality of those. Like most electronics, not made in Europe I think.

Custom keyboards are your best bet if you want to support local business.

As for monitors, no European brands I think (Phillips has been Chinese owned for a while, and they never produced outstanding monitors anyways), plus all the panels usually come from the likes of Samsung or LG anyways.

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yuumei feddit.uk yuumei@feddit.uk
Joined: 2025-02-03
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starlabs.systems are based in the UK and do laptops/tablets and mini PCs. They are slightly unique in that they support linux as a primary OS and provide coreboot firmware for most of the products. I have a mini PC and it's good for older games (Intel CPU/GPU) things like PS1/2 games and xbox games.

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Ajikeshi lemmy.world ajikeshi@lemmy.world
Joined: 2024-08-31
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Dunno about monitors, keyboards (build a custom one and support local suppliers maybe?), and mice Logitech is European enough (swiss)

you could add cherry (for mice and keyboards) to the list... german company... and until a couple of years ago they even produced stuff in germany

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