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I can't make any hardware recommendations. With Linux you are only limited by your own understanding. Learning is a matter of discovering enough information to ask good questions, and even simply learning where to look. Like all of the distros have unique use cases and documentation. Becoming an intermediate user is partially just learning it doesn't matter what distro you use, you still use the documentation for all of them.
If the mouse has extra buttons or whatnot, there is a signal in the Linux kernel. You just need to figure out what to do with this in your use case. It may be easy, where someone else has posted how they did it somewhere on the internet or it may require a super deep dive.
This is where I would start looking for info about what is possible before I bought anything:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Mouse_polling_rate
Look into the associated articles including the one on mouse buttons.
Go home, chat-gpt, you're not welcome here.
PrivateGPT thank you very much. Wrote a dumb blurb before realizing you know a lot more than me. The Arch Wiki has a bunch of info on mouse settings and optimisations that are likely to be helpful BTW.