I used to do stuff like this with a mouse with a lot of buttons. It feels kinda cool for a while. Nowadays I'm using a tiling wm and I dont even use a mouse un

I used to do stuff like this with a mouse with a lot of buttons. It feels kinda cool for a while. Nowadays I'm using a tiling wm and I dont even use a mouse unless I'm playing a shooter. It's a game controller for me. Some graphical applications are built around a mouse unfortunately, so I use my touchpad (lately getting used to the nub on my thinkpad) when necessary, it's not for the most part. If you write code, or find you don't really use your PC for entertainment purposes all that often, besides playing a video in VLC or something, it's a superior experience and I recommend it. It makes the machine feel less like a kiosk and more like an extension of your mind, it's a dance you do from one context to another, tasks performed like the flow of water. There's a feel to getting things done that is a lot like parkour. Even unrelated programs compose from a UX perspective very well. Operating a computer with one finger and your wrist, mentally mapping tasks to the menus they're nested in will feel a lot more sluggish and cumbersome once you get used to the keyboard focused approach to interaction. It might feel like a steep learning curve, but so is a keyboard compared to Morse code, and you wouldn't dream of typing up anything in morse code once you have a keyboard in front of you.