Trying again
Do you guys use a trackball?
What one do you use and what would you recommend getting?
How long did it take to get used to and how fast and accurate is it compared to a regular mouse?
I realized I dont want to fuck up my wrists and I've tried 3 vertical mice and they make it hurt more than a regular mouse
Trying again
Landon Cook
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Jaxon Lopez
I have two Elecom trackballs and love them but cannot really recommend them due to their shit software not working every time a windows screen pops up
Christopher Bennett
I've 2 trackball mice. The elecom have the best reliability. Logitech are comfy but died on me after 3 montsh (both mice I bought).
Jonathan Bailey
Take the old trackball and put it in this
Joseph Morris
I have one of those Logitech ones. i use it all the time on my laptop, but never on a desktop. I've been thinking about getting the one in your picture for my desktop for a long time. I've used a Kensington like 15 years ago and loved it, but it was easy to compete with ball mice back then. for what they cost it's a bit of a gamble to just get one to try out.
Henry Wilson
Recently replaced my CST L-Trac with faulty left button with a wireless Kensington Expertmouse. Though I've been using trackballs for over twenty years now so I can't really comment on how long it took to get used to it.
Adrian Williams
>Do you guys use a trackball?
yes
>What one do you use and what would you recommend getting?
i have a kensington Orbit with the scroll ring and a old a4tech meme trackball with dual scrolls.
I recommend fingers track instead of thumb track, but is my personal preference and i have a fucked up right thumb too, but they are normally bigger than thumbs.
>How long did it take to get used to and how fast and accurate is it compared to a regular mouse?
took me some 3-4 days to be really used to it. It's not faster nor more accurate than a regular mouse imo, and actually can be less accurate for some pin-point accurate needed tasks.
i see the use of keyboard shortcuts and the trackball as a more ergonomic and sometimes faster experience than a regular mouse, but i go back and forth very often. i mostly go back to normal mouse under repetitive tasks that need a somewhat accurate movement to finish it faster and for games. i would go exclusively to track if i didn't have enough desk space to keep my regular mouse.
i suggest to you to try finger track first, keep it, try a thumb track, after you choose what suits you better, sell the other one.
Christian Stewart
Which do you prefer?
Caleb Robinson
My work ordered this one (MX Ergo, probably Plus?) for me. Will get it by tomorrow most likely. I'm pretty excited.
Jordan Turner
Elecom wired trackball, I popped out the ball from an M570 that was starting to double click even after I replaced the button switches and put it in this one; the "page up" button on this one started to drop clicks after a while (I'm not sure how hard it'll be to replace the switch in this one since it was a pain in the ass with the M570) but otherwise it's fine and has a good shaped grip for my hand
At work I still have an old Logitech Trackman Wheel that I replaced the switches in a few years ago, I'm not sure if it's worth replacing it anytime soon
I never noticed the issue with Elecom software suddenly not working on Windows, my only issue is that on Linux I can't get X to do anything useful with the ring finger button even though it shows click events just fine in xev