>staying over at older relative for an unplanned visit >all he has is some toshiba laptop >no mouse >have to use the touchpad >try to move cursor >page wildly zooms in and out at random times >try to move cursor >it decides i want to scroll instead so it makes the cursor disappear and starts racing through the page >try to switch tab >decides i want to drag tab instead and minimizes my window and switches me to a new one >try to solve captcha >it opens the captcha image in a new window because finger wandered 1 mm to the right (no defined buttons, just areas of the touchpad you have to click on) >try to right click and save image >it insteads drags the image for a second and drops it on my current tab so it opens the image over the page i was reading >try to type >palm of my hand hits the touchpad and it clicks away from the typing box.
holy shit how do people stand this? why wouldn't you just get a mouse? is there some trick to gitting gud with the touchpad so i don't accidentally give it the wrong command by moving my fingers too close together or something? fuucck, i'm such a luddite
>dosnt hav a mous-to-touchpad converter driver >dosnt code his own eyrbody loof
Adam Cook
funny you mention the touchscreen, it just hit me i feel as restricted on this thing as i do on a phone. it's like my hands are covered in tar
Blake Thomas
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Thomas Parker
wash your fat greasy fingers
Adrian Morales
>ball mouse > l.a.s.e.r mouse >Prove me wrong. You just proved yourself underage. Ball mice were fucking awful, and I do not miss regularly having to clean the fucking rollers.
Aaron Edwards
I'm using one right now. Can confirm it is far better than any l.a.s.e.r mouse.
Lincoln Cooper
Use a window manager like i3 or Xmonad, plus a browser extension like vimium, and you no longer need a track pad or a mouse
Charles Jenkins
Seems more like you're a big fat butterfingers to me
Matthew Butler
how does it feel to be old and out of touch with technology?
Matthew Allen
Pic or didn't happen
Ayden Richardson
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Michael King
whats wrong with laser mice?
Connor Ramirez
Nothing. They are adequate. They are inferior to those listed above them, however.
Camden Reed
>using another person's computer
Luke Thomas
>what's a circumstance This board gets more autistic every day
Easton Brooks
t. user fat hands
Evan Johnson
Windows OEM trackpads have historically always been trash. Apparently they are just now beginning to catch up with Apple, with Microsoft enforcing “precision touchpads” to make them less trash.
A great trackpad (ie on the Mac) is just as good, if not way better than a mouse.
Owen Sanders
>is there some trick to gitting gud with the touchpad so i don't accidentally give it the wrong command by moving my fingers too close together or something? yes. Buy a macbook. Most touchpads suck, some don't
Adam Morales
Disable clicking on touchpad you retard. After that it is perfectly usable, since 99% of the screwups come when you try to click. I have been using a laptop now for a half year and honestly, the scrolling and zooming features are fucking awesome
Josiah Parker
But I can't
Robert Stewart
>2008 macbook >never had to use a mouse >never even felt like I needed a mouse >it just werks
Windows laptops just can't fucking compete for some reason. I have a professional workstation from Dell, namely the Precision 5520 which costs 2000€ (company paid for it), which I need for my job and man the fucking trackpad even on that is atrocious. I don't know why the fuck Windows laptop manufacturers can't just clone an Apple trackpad.
Kayden Ortiz
Extra misery if touchpad has no separate buttons but the whole surface is clicky.
Colton Clark
My favorite touchpad, scrolling by circling is so comfy.
Luis Lopez
Touchpads didn't used to be like that. They used to be so good you could play online FPS on them and come out in the top tiers. Then apfail happened and murdered technology because fuck everything.
Ryan Robinson
youre supposed to disable all the useless functions from the settings. only the two finger scroll is useful.
Thomas Hall
i thought that im the only one here that uses those.
Juan Gonzalez
Never been a fan, but if the desk space isn't there (train, university etc..), they do come in handy.
