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[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 11 points 3 weeks ago (77 children)

I hated when mice became the primary interface to computers, and I still do.

[–] EatATaco@lemm.ee 7 points 3 weeks ago (73 children)
[–] dezmd@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

To an extent. Early 90's I could navigate WordPerfect in DOS faster than I've ever been able to work in MS Word, because it was all keyboard even before I learned proper home key 10 finger typing in high school. Technically my first word processor was Wordstar on one of those Osborne "portable" computers with the 5-inch screen when I was a young kid, but Wordperfect was what I did my first real 'word processing' on when I started using it for school projects. So I might just be older in that 'how do you do fellow kids' in this sort of discussion.

To this day, I still prefer mc (Midnight Commander, linux flavored recreation of Norton Commander that does have a Windows port (YMMV on the win port)) to navigate filesystems for non-automated file management.

I've been thoroughly conditioned for mouse use since the mid-late 90s (I call it my Warcraft-Quake era, we still used keyboard only for Doom 1/2 back in the early days), and I feel like it's a crutch when I'm trying to do productive work instead of gaming. When I spend a few days working using remote shells, I definitely notice a speed increase. Then a few days later I lose it all again when I'm back on that mouse cursor flow brain.

[–] apostrofail@lemmy.world -1 points 3 weeks ago

Early ’90s*

You got it right the second time though, champ!

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