A Wacom tablet for art. A mouse for browsing the internet. I don’t see how it could possibly be easier to scroll up and down and click on links with a pen than with a mouse with a scroll wheel.
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various informal names have been invented, including “nipple mouse”, “nub”, “eraser mouse”, “joy button”, “clit mouse”, and “keyboard clit”
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(bolding mine.)
Unless you added that yourself…
Neither the one I generally use nor my two favorites are listed. I generally use the touch-pad that’s built into my laptop.
If I had the option, I would prefer to use either a track-point (nub mouse) or a small presentation remote very much like this. The remote has a track-point style cursor controller as well as a scroll wheel and left and right click buttons). (Mine broke recently and I haven’t replaced it yet.)
At work, I use a wired, optical mouse. Not my favorite, but functional.
I use my laptop more than anything and like the touchpad just fine. When I do used the desktop, it has a proper old fashioned mouse. That works just fine too.
Why do most of those sound sexual? Oh, right, because they were named by the same sort of people that named ‘joy sticks’ and nipples.
I used to use a trackball, but the “light mouse” (the ones without the ball in them) doesn’t have the problem of gunk getting into the wheels that trackballs and older-style mice have. Also, I’m just too used to having my index finger on the left button “poised to strike”; on a trackball, the buttons are just too far out of the way.
Depends on where I am.
I’ve tried to use a trackball, but after just a few minutes, my forearm starts aching. After awhile, it feels like it’s on fire. A mouse is the only pointing device I can use comfortably for long periods of time.
I don’t care for traditionally-laid-out trackballs, but ones like this are a delight to use, IMHO.
I’m just a big fan of the plain mouse. Back when they had balls and no scroll button, I often searched for other solutions, but a laser scroll mouse just seems perfect. Though I must admit I do like gesturing on my netbook’s touchpad. Too bad actual mouse movement is always either slower or less precise.
I did always like using balled mice by moving the ball with my fingers, so people would always suggest a trackball, but I never found one that appealed to me
Magic Trackpad on a desktop Mac.
Way back in the day, I switched from a mouse to a trackpad which was much more comfortable to use. Later, a software/driver update gave it scrolling functions along the sides. I bought another one when it died, and I used it right up until I switched to a Mac. I went through a few different mice since then, but I was really happy when they released the Magic Trackpad.
I once had a graphics tablet. It wasn’t Wacom. It was Summa Graphics. It was bloody awful. Some day I’ll buy a graphics tablet again but I’m used to the mouse.
I hated the mouse when I first encountered it: like trying to draw with a brick.
I hate the laptop touch pad. It’s because I never got used to it. I watched someone on a train do fine editing in Photoshop using a touch pad and found it fascinating. Hard to believe someone could control one of those things that well.
Razor Imperator set to have really high sensitivity.
At work, I’ve got the lovely Logitech wireless mouse that I initially bought to use with my laptop (mostly for games). As I don’t have a suitable setup for games at home right now, it was just gathering dust except when I needed to reboot my computer. (See below.) Not having a cord is a wonderful thing. At some point I’ll try to track down the software so I can get a bit more functionality out of it, but for now it works just fine.
At home, I’m quite fond of the trackpad on my MacBook Pro. I dislike taking my fingers off the keyboard, and while I still have to do that to use the trackpad, it’s not nearly as far as I would have to go for a mouse. Plus, I don’t need to find someplace to sit a mouse. The only time I actually have to use a mouse is when I reboot the computer–a bit of water got in the trackpad ages ago. The only thing that was affected was the ability to click by pushing down the entire trackpad. For most purposes, I get by fine with tapping to click, Apple having apparently solved the ultra-sensitivity problems that made me hate trackpads back in the day, but on bootup it doesn’t have my settings loaded, so I need a mouse to be able to click on my name and log in. Bit of a bother, but hardly worth $2K+ on a new computer.
I use a Trackball, but not because I am a nerd. I mean, I am a nerd, but they’re not really related - I just like not having to move my mouse all over the damn desk. And it stays cleaner than a mouse.
Yes, your arm aches at first, but now after years, I am very comfortable with it. And it has the added bonus that none of my coworkers ever want to sit at my desk when I am not there, because they cannot figure out how to use the tracball.
Uh-huh. You just go ahead and keep telling yourself that.