Over the last few years I’ve gone through a couple Logitech MX Verticals. My current one does technically work, but just like the last one the cheap rubber coating has started disintegrating and is pretty nasty at this point.
Anyone have good recs for a vertical mouse that won’t start crumbling like a dry cake in my hand? I’m not picky on buttons or anything, just work with a bunch of spreadsheets at work. The vertical mouse is just much better for my wrist.
Sorta kinda.
If you’re used to the track pads, using a thumb based track pad is similar enough the habituation curve will be gentle.
Mind you, you’re still adapting to the roundness, as well as the scale.
That being said, having used the old Microsoft trackball, thumb based ones are not for me. I’ve tried that specific one as a loaner and it didn’t match what I wanted. But comparing it to the deck’s pads, there’s a closer kind of muscle memory. I think the biggest difference is the tendency of the ball to make the ends of your movement sloppy compared to the center third or so. But that is where the habituation curve is, imo, not in the general usage.
When I’m using a trackball the end of my movement is actually the most precise, ime. The way I use the trackball is to ‘launch’ it roughly in the direction that I want, and then when the cursor is close enough to the target, you ‘stop’ the trackball and precisely move it to the destination. It’s not a single movement it’s like a flick and then a halt and precise movement.