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I'm left handed and have always used the mouse with my left hand. The tilt on the cursor has never seemed odd or wrong or strange to me in any way. I've been
by webignition 3y ago
I'm left handed and have always used the mouse with my left hand.
The tilt on the cursor has never seemed odd or wrong or strange to me in any way.
I've been using computer mice in one way or another for more than 30 years and perhaps a lack of oddness comes from having so very much gotten used to it. Maybe newer left-handed mouse users would find the cursor tilt strange?
- Ekaros 3y agoI think left handed users do not find it weird as it works in left to right up to down information systems. So unlike with pen they get the same benefit of operating tool sensibly.
- rightbyte 3y agoThe arrow gets replaced with a ... pin with a stylized bird in each end? ... so the arrow does not hide text anyways, when going left to right over text, as a physical pen would do.
- rightbyte 3y agoOh dear. I am left handed and I have not even considered the arrow is tilting the wrong way. Now suddenly it annoys me to no end. I need to replace my cursor ...
- Moru 3y ago35-40 years ago I had to switch to left because of too much strain on the right hand. I was very happy when I found a way to mirror my cursor. Am back to right hand now though.
- _moof 3y agoJust wait until you find out why scroll bars are on the right.
- dihrbtk 3y agoI feel like the scroll bar location has more to do with english being written left-to-right.
- raffraffraff 3y agoPeev: UIs and desktop ebbing that shrink or obscure the scrollbar. Gah, stopit.
- xattt 3y ago> The tilt on the cursor has never seemed odd or wrong or strange to me in any way. Not sure if people realize, but this setting is changeable, probably since the times of single-digit Windows.
- justinsaccount 3y ago> since the times of single-digit Windows. Do you mean 15 years ago with windows 7, or 30 years ago with windows 3?
- ant6n 3y agoArguably, the last date of the "times of single-digit Windows" would be one day before the release of Win 10, which was on 2015-07-29. Didn't Win 8 have fewer options for adapting the UI compared to previous versions of Windows?
- xboxnolifes 3y agoI don't know how far back they mean, but Im pretty sure I recall it being in XP.
- bondarchuk 3y ago
- silon42 3y agoI have a mouse on each side of the keyboard, so changing the mouse pointer shape was never even considered.
- alamortsubite 3y agoIt might be fun to set up your system to switch between left and right-tilted cursors automatically, depending on which mouse you're using.
- klibertp 3y agoAlso make it maintain 2 cursor positions and switch between them depending on the mouse. It would be pretty neat with multiple monitors, with focus following the (active) cursor. (Assuming you're ambidextrous, of course :))
- alamortsubite 3y agoWoah! I may be ambidextrous, but no way am I ambicursorous!
- bombcar 3y agoBi-cursorious might matter more when using a stylus on a iPad or similar. I wonder.
- taeric 3y agoThe steam deck has a keyboard that supports input from both trackpads at the same time. Always surprised me this is not really supported by most desktop environments.
- WarOnPrivacy 3y ago> I have a mouse on each side of the keyboard In 30yrs of IT support, this is a thing I have never seen. If I had, I'd be forever inserting into conversations about end-users. Strictly for the novelty.
- crazygringo 3y agoFor a month or two I decided to start using the mouse with my left hand just for fun, to see how ambidextrous I could be. The "wrong"-pointed cursor annoyed me so much I had to find a utility to flip it. (On a Mac, which doesn't support custom cursors like Windows has since forever.) It seriously drove me nuts otherwise. So it's really interesting to hear that if it was always that way for you, it doesn't bother you!
- taeric 3y agoI used to swap hands with my mouse every month or so. I don't remember ever noticing the tilt.
- lupire 3y agoHow do you feel about writing in general, left to right, with your left hand?
- raffraffraff 3y agoI used to smudge the hell out of the text so I adopted a really weird way of positioning my hand. Could never use fountain pens.
- kbelder 3y agoHuh. I wonder if there was some (superficially) valid reasoning there for forcing lefthanders to learn write with their right hand. Due to the left-to-right nature of English, and the technology of fountain pens, it really was more objectively difficult to write with your left hand.