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Re:Sway 1.0 by oblio on Monday March 11, 2019 @01:09PM (#19360662)
I wasn't actually the original poster :)

The thing is, we have studies that prove that mouse + keyboard interaction is faster than keyboard-only https://www.asktog.com/TOI/toi06KeyboardVMouse1.html - until you become super proficient with all the relevant the keyboard shortcuts.

So it's not about "inferior"/"superior", it's about your use case.

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Re:Sway 1.0 by kstenerud on Monday March 11, 2019 @02:20PM (#19361362)
Another thing to consider:

Even if there were a significant difference one way or the other, it's rare to spend more than 1% of your time arranging your workspace and switching views & windows, so any optimization of that 1% will have minimal effect on your productivity.

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Re:Sway 1.0 by craigsmansion on Monday March 11, 2019 @04:31PM (#19362528)
> The thing is, we have studies that prove

"Originally published in the AppleDirect, August, 1989"

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Re:Sway 1.0 by oblio on Tuesday March 12, 2019 @06:34AM (#19366810)
So? Do you think that users have changed so much in these past 30 years? If anything, things have regressed in some regards, as kids these days start directly with touch interface, single user, single application/windows OSes, basically, smartphone OSes (I know that technically mobile OSes are not like that anymore, but that's how they're used 99,999% of the time).
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