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I wonder if you’re suffering from past experiences of touch pads from the 1990s? I was a slow adopter for similar reasons. Remind yourself that it works exactl
by fingerlocks 6y ago
I wonder if you’re suffering from past experiences of touch pads from the 1990s? I was a slow adopter for similar reasons.
Remind yourself that it works exactly like the screen of an iPhone or iPad, that’s when it clicked for me.
- bradstewart 6y agoModern touchpads are significantly improved compared to the old generations (even from 5 years ago). It's not that touchpads are bad input devices (like they used to be), it's that I'm bad at touchpads. I could probably get used to them if I had any reason to, but I have no idea where I would even put my laptop to use it comfortably with an external monitor. I like my mouse and I have no problems with it, so no sense in buying an external touchpad. If I did a lot of work like scrubbing through audio/video or something that benefited from multitouch gestures like pinch-to-zoom, then maybe I'd consider it.
- recursive 6y agoI also prefer mouses to touch screens. My laptop has both, but I use a mouse about 100x as often as the touch screen.
- koyote 6y agoBut even on a phone/tablet selecting text is a massive pain. Selecting stuff, dragging stuff, quickly flicking the cursor from one screen to the next: those are all things I assume every developer does at least a couple of times an hour. They are also things that, for me, are very clumsy when using a trackpad.