[packetlost]

I'm left handed, but I very early on (ie. like around age 5-6) I switched to using my right hand with a mouse. Since getting wrist pain in my right hand, I've purchased a magic trackpad which I keep to the left of my keyboard and I alternate between left w/ touchpad and right w/ mouse. It's worked very well for me!

[ryandvm]

Same. I'm right-handed, but switch to left-handed mousing when my wrist started hurting. Now I switch back and forth several times per week. Nipped my nascent carpal tunnel in the bud I think.

What's interesting is that it's not as hard as it sounds. You basically just reverse your left/right click settings and your brain picks it up very quickly.

[lproven]

Hmmm. I never switch the buttons and TBH I never understood why that option was there. It's no harder to move between 2 (or 3) buttons with my index finger on either hand.

Do some people use different fingers on the different buttons?

[packetlost]

I still find using a mouse with my left hand a bit awkward, but using a touchpad is just fine

[lproven]

Good plan!

I didn't have that option as I was born shortly before Douglas Engelbart did the "mother of all demos". Mice hadn't really been invented yet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mother_of_All_Demos

Sadly for me I crippled my right arm in a bicycle crash in April and now it's quite painful to use it for a mouse, so I use it in my left hand mainly now... but I am working on it.

[packetlost]

IMO it's easier to get the gestures with your off hand on a trackpad down than the more particular movements of a mouse. It's less constraining and you're likely already used to using it in a similar with a phone