• Magnetar@feddit.de
    5·
    2 years ago

    They are great, but I have two issues with my left handed one:

    • Right handed people just cannot use it, I can’t just give someone else my mouse for a minute.
    • For some stupid reason, the left and right mouse button are switched, so now I have to switch it back in software, so now the buttons on my laptop touchpad are switched.
    • HornedMeatBeast@lemmy.world
      2·
      2 years ago

      The IT manager at my previous job used this as a security feature.

      People thought that because he was the IT manager he could just get another mouse, so they’d just take his when they left their mouse at home and never return it.

      So he got a left handed vertical mouse even though he is right handed.

      Nobody steals his mouse now because it is vertical and cannot be used in the right hand.

      • SeedyOne@lemm.ee
        1·
        2 years ago

        We had a guy learn Dvorak specifically so no one could take his keyboard. Madman or brilliant?

  • Lath@kbin.social
    4·
    2 years ago

    When a mouse and a joystick love each other very much, this is the end result.

  • Kinakuta@lemmy.world
    4·
    2 years ago

    I use a split keyboard and trackball at work, and I thoroughly enjoy the bafflement of my coworkers when they try to use my computer.

  • GombeenSysadmin@lemmy.world
    4·
    2 years ago

    As an IT support person, the problem I have with these mice is that the left mouse button is also on the vertical. So when heavy-handed users click on a file in explorer, they also slightly drag down, so the file “disappears” into a folder, and now it’s a support ticket to get the file restored.

    Sigh.

    • Thrashy@lemmy.world
      0·
      2 years ago

      I have a couple friends that play PC games on old-school Trackman trackballs. The amount of griping when we play a game with something bound by default to the mousewheel is INCREDIBLE.

      • beefcat@lemmy.world
        1·
        2 years ago

        That’s like using a Dvorak keyboard and complaining that games default to WASD bindings. This is the exact reason why key remapping is a standard feature on PC games but not on consoles

  • dzervas@lemmy.world
    3·
    2 years ago

    I tried it and I got wrist pain that I never had from the horizontal mouse

    I guess my body is completely set? (been using a normal mouse for many, many hours since I was 10yo)

  • Yuumi@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    2 years ago

    I need me a Logitech G502 hero equivalent but vertical, no way I’m giving up all these extra quick buttons

    • ComradeSharkfucker@lemmy.ml
      1·
      2 years ago

      Really love the feel of my Logitech G pro tbh. Super clicky, light, and smooth. The texture of the material is great too.

      It’s not at all ergonomic bc it is an ambidextrous design but it hasn’t bothered my yet and I use my PC way more than I should.

  • banneryear1868@lemmy.world
    2·
    2 years ago

    A cautionary tale if you’re considering.

    Years ago someone left my employer abruptly, and on their desk was left a fancy vertical mouse. It sat there for a few days, and I kept glancing over, at first ambivalent, but as time passed the temptation increased. I debated the dilemma of becoming a vertical mouse person, was that really for me? Eventually I succumbed and thought hey it’s worth a try, see what it’s like to be one of them… pure learning opportunity…

    Then something happened… I got used to it in about a half hour and in the first day my precision improved. A sudden urge came over me to tell all my coworkers, was I really becoming one of those people so fast? Trying to resist was futile and within a couple days I became a vertical mouse person, always wanting to tell everyone how great they are, constantly resisting the urge. I forgot what life was like with a horizontal mouse, and I never looked back.

  • Pharceface@lemm.ee
    2·
    2 years ago

    I really wish, they would release a gaming oriented vertical mouse. High DPI sensor, good clicker switches, etc. Right now stuck with my Logitech lift that tops out at 4000 dpi and has mushy switches.

  • UsernameIsTooLon@lemmy.world
    2·
    2 years ago

    For ergonomics, it’s a great office mouse. But just a heads up you’re clicking horizontally so you slightly move the cursor every time you click. Kinda bad for gaming.

  • zjaume@lemm.ee
    1·
    2 years ago

    Been uing them for a long time. But it is really hard to find a good one under 40/50€. Normal mouses have a lot of the goodones in 30€.

  • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de
    1·
    2 years ago

    i find these WAY more painful to use than a normal mouse, it puts all my weight on that hemispherical bit in the wrist and the angle is just slightly off being the neutral position for my hand so it’s instead constantly putting stress on the arm…

    i want one that’s just slightly more tilted than a normal mouse.