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Re:The phone-makers bringing back buttons by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Thursday February 28, 2019 @08:10AM (#19271057)
Somebody is a webdev who works in a terminal all day.

Mice are great. They can be used for drawing, dragging, context menus, scrolling, and to quickly and precisely select and manipulate distant controls. Those things are significantly more tedious when performed with a keyboard, or require pre-configured hotkeys. The mouse has stuck around for a reason.

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Re:The phone-makers bringing back buttons by Skunkleton on Thursday February 28, 2019 @01:19PM (#19273596)
Even worse, I am an operating systems dev. But to be specific, I agree that mice are a useful tool for some tasks. But novices use them like a hammer and everything becomes a nail.
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