• banneryear1868@lemmy.world
    28·
    1 year ago

    A cautionary tale if you’re considering.

    Years ago someone left my employer abruptly, and on their desk was left a fancy vertical mouse. It sat there for a few days, and I kept glancing over, at first ambivalent, but as time passed the temptation increased. I debated the dilemma of becoming a vertical mouse person, was that really for me? Eventually I succumbed and thought hey it’s worth a try, see what it’s like to be one of them… pure learning opportunity…

    Then something happened… I got used to it in about a half hour and in the first day my precision improved. A sudden urge came over me to tell all my coworkers, was I really becoming one of those people so fast? Trying to resist was futile and within a couple days I became a vertical mouse person, always wanting to tell everyone how great they are, constantly resisting the urge. I forgot what life was like with a horizontal mouse, and I never looked back.

  • Pharceface@lemm.ee
    9·
    1 year ago

    I really wish, they would release a gaming oriented vertical mouse. High DPI sensor, good clicker switches, etc. Right now stuck with my Logitech lift that tops out at 4000 dpi and has mushy switches.

    • UsernameIsTooLon@lemmy.world
      2·
      1 year ago

      Vertical gaming mice are good in theory, but they’re bad for aim. Since you’re clicking vertically, you actually very slightly move your mouse with each click. It throws off your aim :/

      That and I claw grip too hard to ever get comfortable with them. But to each their own.

    • mojofrododojo@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      it’s like gripping the pistol-style grip on a rifle. benefit: you’ll use your elbow and arm muscles more in moving it around, placing less stress on the wrist muscles. It’s a much more natural grip.

  • UsernameIsTooLon@lemmy.world
    91·
    1 year ago

    For ergonomics, it’s a great office mouse. But just a heads up you’re clicking horizontally so you slightly move the cursor every time you click. Kinda bad for gaming.

  • Kinakuta@lemmy.world
    8·
    1 year ago

    I use a split keyboard and trackball at work, and I thoroughly enjoy the bafflement of my coworkers when they try to use my computer.

      • lipilee@feddit.nl
        2·
        1 year ago

        PgUp/PgDown when easily possible to use (the webpage/program isn’t crap etc) is very quick. If that doesn’t work, i can probably still outscroll or at least match you with two thumb scroll on the touchpad.

        What I’m genuinely not sure about is how healthy touchpaddin’ is on the wrist… but i’ve been doing it for about 25 years without major issues so i guess i at last for used to it.

        • WalrusDragonOnABike [they/them]@reddthat.com
          1·
          1 year ago

          at least match you with two thumb scroll on the touchpad.

          Depends what kind of wheel they’re rollin’. Some, a single flick of the finger is enough to keep it rolling high-speed for a while. Even if you could keep up with that, it would be miserable unless you had momentum settings set to impractical levels.

          • lipilee@feddit.nl
            1·
            1 year ago

            Oh yes forgot about those fancy bois. Then i’ll just go with the pgup/pgdn argument :)

    • Dehydrated@lemmy.world
      2·
      1 year ago

      Trackpoints are great, they’re my second choice when I can’t use a trackball for some reason. Unfortunately, it’s basically impossible to design a split keyboard with a trackpoint.

  • GombeenSysadmin@lemmy.world
    5·
    1 year ago

    As an IT support person, the problem I have with these mice is that the left mouse button is also on the vertical. So when heavy-handed users click on a file in explorer, they also slightly drag down, so the file “disappears” into a folder, and now it’s a support ticket to get the file restored.

    Sigh.

    • Smoogs@lemmy.world
      2·
      1 year ago

      I was remembering just now I used to have one but I gave up on it almost immediately after using irl Thanks for reminding me why I quickly moved on from vertical mouse.

  • Grass@sh.itjust.works
    4·
    1 year ago

    I tried a number of those and couldn’t get used to it. I’d get soreness and cramps after the same amount of time but in different locations mostly around the thumb where the skin stretches when you do pistol hands.

    In the most recent past I’d been using the elecom huge trackball but it’s not without it’s issues either. I don’t actually recommend elecom they have quality control issues and the deft has the most infuriating mouse wheel. Thumb trackball gave me similar soreness to vertical mouse, and index finger trackball the back of my hand where the fingers attach.

    Now I’m using just the steam deck and a Thinkpad laptop lately and those also introduce their own flavour of hand strain after a while.

    Apart from the high cost of the hobby, we have reached an era of peak keyboard greatness, but we don’t seem have many immediately apparent custom mouse options. Not that I would have any idea what wouldn’t hurt me physically. Maybe one of the diy keyboards with a built in trackball.

  • Jknaraa@lemmy.ml
    4·
    1 year ago

    Thumb ball master race chuckles with amusement as they look down upon this post from Olympus.

  • Gondolaaaa@lemmy.world
    4·
    1 year ago

    I have a MX Vertical at work and Logi Ergos (both the 570 and a MX Ergo) at home, they are great. Love the battery life of the MX Ergo, I sometimes forget I even have to charge the damn thing. However I did have to change the main buttons in the MX Ergo, the switch were failing and it ended up double clicking