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I do, because it solved a rsi issue for me. The mouse is far closer to the centerline of my body when I don’t have the keypad in the way.

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I use a ”ten-key-less” keyboard (without numerical part but with arrow and delete-block keys) for this reason.

I've had a long history with obscure keyboards. This all started in `99 with the Apple Extended Keyboard 2 (ADB, great action, but wide), then the narrower/older Apple Keyboard (adb, good action till it wore out), Two Model M13s with trackpoints (PS/2, good action, but one started having key repeat issues, and the other one has an aging cable thats tempermental.) They also don't have enough modifier keys anymore.

By the time tenkeyless boards were common, I was firmly in the lefthanded mouse camp.

For a while, I was running two mice, one for each side, but I pretty quickly ended up with just the one.

Same, I switched decades ago because of rsi. Now I always use the mouse on the left. I used to switch to the right only to do very fine “lasso” work in photoshop. But I do full time development only now.

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