OpenRGB
Different way of workingFreeLighting only, for the Corsair devices on its supported list. No fan curves, macros, LCD screens or audio settings.
Does Corsair iCUE run on Linux?
Verdict: No
No. Corsair offers iCUE for Windows and Mac only. OpenRGB handles the lighting on many Corsair devices, but fan curves, macros and the LCD screen features have no Linux equivalent.
Corsair's downloads page offers iCUE for Windows and macOS. Linux is not listed and there is no Corsair software for it.
Keyboards, mice and headsets keep working as ordinary keyboards, mice and headsets. Anything you saved into a device's own memory before you switched stays there.
OpenRGB covers a good part of the lighting. Its supported list includes a long run of Corsair keyboards, mice, memory, coolers and fans, and it controls them from one window alongside whatever else in the machine has lights. Look your exact models up first, because each is marked separately and some are only partly supported. The project also warns that these protocols were reverse engineered and that hardware has been damaged by lighting software before.
The rest of iCUE does not come across. Custom fan curves on Corsair coolers and fans, cooler temperature monitoring, the small LCD screens, macros, headset equaliser settings and surround sound are all Windows and Mac features. Set your fan behaviour in the motherboard's own setup screen before you switch, because that setting lives in the machine rather than in any operating system.
What to use instead of Corsair iCUE
Mission Center
Different way of workingFreeFor watching processor and graphics temperatures on the desktop, which is part of why people left iCUE open.
This doesn't have to stop you
One stubborn program doesn't have to decide the whole question. You can keep Windows on the same PC and restart into it only when you need Corsair iCUE. Everything else you do can move.
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