What Is the Most Valuable Thing You Can Learn in One Hour?

Re:What Is the Most Valuable Thing You Can Learn in One Hour? by sandfly on Tuesday December 31, 2019 @09:58AM (#21921356)

If you have a laptop with a trackpoint, become proficient with it. You can switch between mouse and keyboard without moving your fingers away from the home row.

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Re:What Is the Most Valuable Thing You Can Learn in One Hour? by abhijat on Tuesday December 31, 2019 @10:44AM (#21921723)

I just disable the trackpad in all my laptops, I find it much harder to use than a trackpoint.

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Re:What Is the Most Valuable Thing You Can Learn in One Hour? by soygul on Tuesday December 31, 2019 @11:08AM (#21921982)

> trackpad in all my laptops

even in a macbook? it probably is the best part of macbooks in general

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Re:What Is the Most Valuable Thing You Can Learn in One Hour? by sandfly on Tuesday December 31, 2019 @12:54PM (#21922934)

The MacBook trackpads are definitely great. And the trackpoint looks like an anachronistic holdover from the early 90s next to a modern trackpad. However, it has survived because it's truly a useful productivity tool.

It's a nice middle ground between having to move your hand between the keyboard and trackpad, or embracing a keyboard-only Vim approach.

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Re:What Is the Most Valuable Thing You Can Learn in One Hour? by ghaff on Tuesday December 31, 2019 @12:53PM (#21922924)

MacBooks were the first laptops I had where I actively liked the trackpad rather than grudgingly tolerated it. TBH, I've been pretty happy with the trackpads on my Chromebooks and Linux Thinkpads as well. It's mostly my one Windows laptop that I still feel I need to attach a mouse.

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