What about the trackpad ?
Adjust the sensitivity upwards and it requires virtually no force at all.
IMO the nub isn't more accurate or anything like that, 95% of the value is simply the position next to home-row.
I haven't met a PC trackpad I like though.
Main benefits:
+ hands stay on homerow while using mouse, so I can switch from keys to mouse to keys very fast and without losing my place.
+ Don't need extra space for a physical mouse
+ Easy to use at certain angles
- Not easy to use at other certain angles
> - Not easy to use at other certain angles
Any tips on what the correct angle is? Every few month for the past 3 years I've been trying to get used to the trackpoint on my lenovo. I never stick with it longer than an hour. It's just so much slower than the trackpad. Am I doing something wrong?
I used to have trackpoint send the cursor across the screen pretty efficiently when pressed harder, while keeping it quite reasonably accurate when pressed gently.
The same applies to mice, but the threshold(s) for a trackpoint differ(s) from mouse's, so it pays to tweak it until you're comfortable.
Protip: Lenovo makes different styles of nubs that you can buy. "Soft Rim" is easiest to use IMO ( amazing grip), followed by the "Classic Dome" (great grip but rubs off easily).
Makes using 3D software on a laptop much easier, and also allows using X11's "middle-click to paste".
I've been idly thinking of getting a new laptop, and it's been disappointing to see how few have a true middle mouse button.
its been about 4 months of using nothing but a trackpad and even though its really good im fairly certain I'll be sticking with trackpoints from here on out.
one thing that's really starting to bug me lately is the accidental clicks from your palm hitting the edge of the trackpad. I don't know how people manage with those new macbooks with the oversized trackpads
Have new MacBook, never had this problem. Mabye they're detecting accidental inputs?
The other reason for selling it was two failures of the awful keyboard in six months - I wanted shot before the warranty ended.
The x1 has what feels like a full sized keyboard in a lightweight package, lightweight like a macbook air but with a nice mechanical keyboard. The dell feels like a netbook that found some big boy pants. It's keyboard is atrocious/typing feels cramped.
I do most things with the keyboard with both hands on the home row. This is great, but there are still applications and some websites where I need to use the mouse. For those things, it's great to not have to move my hands to use a mouse -- it's the reason I really like the TrackPoint.
Once your hand is there though, the trackpad is better. Though you can extend that to; once your hand is on a real mouse, the real mouse is even better. But that's even farther away. And whipping your hand back and forth between mouse and keyboard is really annoying, at least to me.
And there on the 2012 era smaller trackpads. Probably easier on the new ones that are twice the size.
The Command key is for sending commands.
35 years on, and Apple is still the only company that got this right.
I can’t believe that macOS lacks keyboard shortcuts for window management in Split View.
On my personal laptop, the Mod4 key is just for me to use for customization.
Of course, in an ideal world, windows would be "spatial", remembering their position and size so they always opened exactly how you left them, so managing them with your mouse would be no big deal, and even more efficient and human-centric than whatever tiling WM Linux users think is cool today. But these days not even Apple wants to commit to that. Nevertheless, the paradigm of a universal set of commands that all applications respond to is central to the Mac user experience, and the window-management shortcuts Mac OS provides are part of this. You're just so used to a difficult-to-use OS where "window manager" is a separate concept that you have difficulty understanding the simplicity of how the Mac does things.
Posting from GNOME 3, where all my out-of-band shortcuts are on Super just as on a Mac. (Setting it up did take me a whole five minutes, granted.)
As far as I’ve been able to tell, you have to install third party software like Better Touch Tool or Spectacles if you want keyboard shortcuts for window management other than a full screen toggle.
Almost all of the window management functions of macOS are mouse driven and hidden behind slow animations.
Personally I find the experience awkward. I don’t like taking my hands off the keyboard just to snap a window to the side of the screen or move it to another display.
Compare that to Gnome where super-left snaps to the left instantly. Super-up toggles full screen and shift-super-up moves the window to the next screen instantly. All without the slow as molasses animations.
Certainly in the Gnome Terminal on Ubuntu I've been relieved to find out that C-c is still SIGINT and you can get copy using Ctrl-Shift-c. Ctrl-Shit-v to insert.