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I went a different direction recently, i ditched the mouse and instead bought a lower-end Huion graphical tablet. I do pretty much everything with the keyboard,
by smoe 4y ago
I went a different direction recently, i ditched the mouse and instead bought a lower-end Huion graphical tablet. I do pretty much everything with the keyboard, but while thinking about things i much prefer sketching ideas and taking notes by hand over e.g diagrams as code.
It has only been a couple weeks and im still getting used to using a digital pen and what combination of software to use, but pretty happy so far with the experience.
- codazoda 4y agoThat’s pretty interesting. I’d love to use one for art, but it always seemed like another clunky thing I needed attached. I didn’t consider using it INSTEAD of my mouse. Also, one of them has a scroll wheel, which is relatively important to my browsing habits. Maybe I’ll try this out. I’ve got an old Wacom around here somewhere.
- ryandrake 4y agoI'm headed this way, too, minus the tablet. As my joints are getting older, I'm finding the hand movements involved with using a mouse or trackpad to be more and more painful. I've been trying to go keyboard-only, but it's incredible the number of applications these days, not to mention the operating system's UI, that require the pointer because they don't have keyboard shortcuts (or even a way to use the keyboard) for more and more application functions. I remember DOS applications and many early Windows applications could be navigated entirely by keyboard. I think Microsoft's developer docs once strongly urged developers to not make things mouse-only because 1. people may prefer the keyboard and 2. not everyone has a mouse. The web is even worse. So many web sites can't even seem to grasp the concept of tab-ordering, let alone support keyboard-only operation.
- goosedragons 4y agoThere's a couple keyboard oriented web browsers that make things a tad better. Qutebrowser for example. There's also extensions for Firefox.