Linux - the easy to use OS

Scott Nudds · External Since: Sep 13, 2006 Posts: 275

From: "Gregory Shearman" <ZekeGregory.RemoveThis@netscape.net>
> I've used a Microsoft optical mouse for years. It's bloody great! I also
use
> a Microsoft keyboard and never have any problems. This is good quality
> dirt-cheap hardware!

I am eager to see the new Microsoft Vista keyboard. I'm currently using
two very nice Logiitech keyboards and they are very nice, but the damn fools
decided to replace the delete/insert key combo in the edit/navigation island
with just one big delete key. Insert is now relegated to the numeric keypad
only. Freaking pain in the ass.

But other than that, great keyboard. came with an optical mouse for 30
bucks.

Scott Nudds · External Since: Sep 13, 2006 Posts: 275

"flatfish+++" <flatfish DeleteThis @linuxmail.org> wrote
> Linux will get the blame.

Just as as Windows gets the blame for faulty drivers.

Johan Lindquist · External Since: Mar 25, 2004 Posts: 522

So anyway, it was like, 03:23 CEST Oct 05 2006, you know? Oh, and, yeah,
Linonut was all like, "Dude,

> You know what I hate about the scroll wheel (and the scroll bar)?
>
> You can scroll down with them. But if you switch to the page-down
> key, your taken right back where you started. In Windows apps, at
> least.

Yeah, you need to put the cursor somewhere in the visible part of the
document before you start navigating with the keys, otherwise you'll
be starting out from the last position of the cursor, not the last
position of the viewport. I know this well, and yet I get bitten by it
almost every day.

> Why they have two position markers is beyond me.

Oh, but that's obvious. One is just not good enough.

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[H]omer · External Since: Apr 21, 2006 Posts: 2134

Johan Lindquist wrote:

> Oh, I'm sure it's just a matter of time until that, too, is as
> unavoidable as the scroll wheel.

I hate them. In fact I hate them so much that a few years ago I bought a
box of 50 "Logitech Pilot" PS2/Serial 3 button mice, just so I'd never
ever have to use a God damned scroll wheel for the rest of my life.

IMHO the three button configuration is perfect. Any more is confusing;
and any less is too prohibitive, esp. WRT gaming.

Mind you, the 8 that I have deployed now have never broke, and they're
easily cleaned.

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