I've not used a mouse on any computer I've ever owned. {grin} I guess I find trackpads to be a lot more convenient.

-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker

You must not play any online computer games; any player with a trackball would get completely destroyed. ;) Thats not to say that I use a mousepad myself; a quality laser mouse is very necessary for any type of game requiring speed (such as Starcraft/Counterstrike/Quake/etc). For instance, try either of the Reaction games (reaction 1 is for rts, reaction 2 is for fps) at http://www.missionred.com with a trackball, and then try again with a laser mouse. HUGE difference. I would never trade the speed and accuracy of my laser for anything... but feel free to play against me using whatever you want :)

What's an "online computer game"?

{grin}

-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker

Is a laser mouse a new innovation or is it just a wrong name for an optical mouse? (They use LEDs, that just aren't lasers).

Anyway, I don't use a mouse, I don't use a trackball or glidepoint. My favorite pointing device is the Wacom Graphire. I also use a small joystick-like thingy for when I only need to change focus (Don't wanna pick up the pen, point and drop the pen just to tell my machine I want another xterm :).
Yes, my system does have a mouse. It's just for visitors :) (Just like the non-split keyboard)

As for games, what do games have to do with computers? :)

2;0 juerd@ouranos:~$ perl -e'undef christmas'
Segmentation fault
2;139 juerd@ouranos:~$
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I have been a trackball user since the very beginning and played from quake on with a trackball and i have since given up playing online games but when i used to play tribes and the early versions of CS i used to OWN with my trackball...and yes i've used a laser mouse just give me my logitech trackball anyday.

I use to say:

My favourite mouse has 102 buttons - and doesn't move