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by robinsonb5 1012 days ago
It's more than that - it's a new generation of techies who grew up in a "mobile first" world, and view the mouse as an archaic input device.
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rglullis 1011 days ago
I'd be inclined to agree with you, but it's hard to me to believe that all these kids went to college (or got some type of computer training) only by working with their phones/tablets.
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robinsonb5 1011 days ago
It's not that they only use their phones/tablets, it's that the phone/tablet is the first tool they reach for, the default device, and UI conventions from that space feel correct and natural to them, just as they feel clumsy and jarring to me. (How old am I? Old enough that I still use an opto-mechnical mouse with a ball, because I still like the extra weight and inertia it has over a pure optical mouse!)
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bitwize 1011 days ago
How can you prefer that?

Not having to periodically scrape the crud off the rollers has been such a boon to me.

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bitwize 1011 days ago
The youngest had to be taught, as part of intro to CS, how files and directories worked.

Such a person may have used a desktop, but desktops are foreign to them.

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