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If you've grown up using touchscreens (absolute position), then a mouse or a trackpad (relative velocity) could be a bit counterintuitive.
by perilunar 2y ago
If you've grown up using touchscreens (absolute position), then a mouse or a trackpad (relative velocity) could be a bit counterintuitive.
- fho 2y agoYep ... To the point where we had first year university students (20yo-ish), who never used a laptop or desktop pc before.
- ornornor 2y agoI suspect that’s also why the default for scrolling on computers is now the inverse of what it’s ever been. The default is that you’re grabbing the document and pulling it up to scroll down whereas those of us who grew up before smart phones find it way more logical to scroll the wheel down to scroll down. Basically moving the document (touchscreen) vs moving the viewport (pre-touchscreen). I have to change the default on every machine I use, I hate how inverted scrolling is becoming the normal scrolling direction, and normal scrolling is being thought of as inverted. Heh.
- PufPufPuf 2y agoThat's just an Apple thing, the scroll direction is still the same on normal computers.
- ornornor 2y agoNot in my experience. Windows also sets it wrong by default, I can’t remember about Ubuntu with the default DE but I think it also sets it wrong if you’re using a trackpad.
- Am4TIfIsER0ppos 2y agoIIRC it was also backwards (compared to a scrollwheel) when I installed linux and kde on my laptop but I'm going to boot it and check. Hm... the value in the config claims it is the default so I'm not sure anymore.