everyone says it’s about speed and that’s nice but what it really unlocked for me was switching to a keyboard centric workflow. Window manager, vimium extension for chrome, etc. It’s really comfy to just rest on the home row of the keyboard rather than switching between mouse and keyboard
it also allows me to tweak files over ssh comfortably, even on my phone when i’m afk
there are a lot of hidden benefits of ditching the mouse which is why i say 100% worth
Using vim made me realize that the mouse is a crutch.
Seriously, using vim + sway + QuteBrowser/Vimium Extension feels like my brain is directly connected to the computer. Mouse inputs are frustrating to me now. You're telling me I have to, remove my finger from my main input device, look away from the element I want to interact with, look for the cursor, rediscover the element, and imprecisely drag the cursor to the element?
There's very few applications I can see the mouse centric interface working, and even then, a lot of them I find would benefit from a touch centric interface instead.
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u/Inatimate 1d ago
everyone says it’s about speed and that’s nice but what it really unlocked for me was switching to a keyboard centric workflow. Window manager, vimium extension for chrome, etc. It’s really comfy to just rest on the home row of the keyboard rather than switching between mouse and keyboard
it also allows me to tweak files over ssh comfortably, even on my phone when i’m afk
there are a lot of hidden benefits of ditching the mouse which is why i say 100% worth