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There is a funny symptom among windows users when they have a notebook/laptop: they need a mouse. Even when the notebook has a good trackpad, they still need a
by marcodiego 4y ago
There is a funny symptom among windows users when they have a notebook/laptop: they need a mouse. Even when the notebook has a good trackpad, they still need a mouse. I tried to investigate why this happens. What I suspect: windows overuse/abuse clicks. The user must click so many points, they don't care about using the keyboard or shortcuts. Also, AFAIK, only recently windows has support for things like two-finger scroll and right click by tapping with two fingers; most users don't even know this is possible and look surprised when I show them that.
They have a need for a mouse. They scroll the text using the scrollbar, they use it even for moving the caret to the above line when writing code! It makes me sad just looking at that.
- spookie 4y agoMost students that age play videogames
- kiririn 4y agoGive me a mouse (with a good sensor and no acceleration) over keyboard navigation any day I appreciate there are people who swear by the keyboard driven text editors etc. But I feel like these people do not appreciate how fast you can be with a good mouse, low input lag and muscle memory
- inetknght 4y agoI admit I also use a mouse even on laptops. I hate trackpads. But my text experience is much more blended. If I move around a lot in a file then I might drag the scrollbar with the mouse. But if it's a few lines or maybe just a few pages then I'll use arrow keys (or tmux's or vi's equivalent) and sometimes pageup/pagedown. I particularly prefer being able to use globs and regular expressions for everything though. Files for all devices -- only relying on permissions -- is absolutely wonderful. And the best part is not (usually) having configuration hidden in some registry ... just use `grep -P` on `/etc` to find what needs to change.