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Re:Reasons You Should Put the Mouse on the Left If You’re Ri... by hb20007 on Thursday July 05, 2018 @09:08AM (#17462937)
It frees your right hand to use keyboard buttons intended for the right hand such as backspace, delete and numpad.
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Re:Reasons You Should Put the Mouse on the Left If You’re Ri... by guiambros on Thursday July 05, 2018 @10:32AM (#17463517)
> ...frees your right hand to use keyboard buttons intended for the right hand...

On the other hand (ha!) you lose access to navigational keys that are typically used when you're "mousing", changing between apps/tabs and screens - e.g. alt-tab, ESC, alt-w, alt-q, alt-F4, meta-shortcuts, etc.

I noticed that I use the right keys - enter, backspace, delete, etc - mostly when I'm typing, so I want my two hands in the keyboard anyway.

For me the mouse on the right side is the best combination.

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Re:Reasons You Should Put the Mouse on the Left If You’re Ri... by mitchty on Thursday July 05, 2018 @09:10AM (#17462946)
Yep, also you don't have to move your arm as far to reach the mouse then by not moving over numeric keys.

Seems small, but as a righty i've been doing the left hand mouse/trackpad for a while now and it definitely helps on the rsi.

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