I have a preference towards keyboard shortcuts, but I dont think I’m in any way anti-mouse, I’m just very pro-keyboard. If there is a quick easy keyboard shortcut, I’ll almost always use it.

Honestly, back in the windows 8 days, I never understood the backlash about the start screen/menu. My workflow was “hit windows key, type name of app. hit enter” and that workflow didnt change with the full screen mobile centric menu, so it never felt problematic to me. Plenty of other problematic things about microsoft and windows, but “But the start menu is full screen!” wasnt one of them for me.

I find that Vimium makes web stuff pretty keyboard usable. There are gaps, like it often doesn’t work well with non-native drop-downs. Unfortunately Vimium does override web app shortcuts, so when you find an app that does have good shortcuts you have to register a rule to disable Vimium for that site.

Personally, I have challenges remembering key combinations and thus only use a few. Often, the timevitvtakes to retrieve the right keyboard equivalent takes longer than using the mouse, and often I have to use the mouse to lookup the key combo.

I need to be using a particular tool very frequently to muscle memory the key codes.

No, I’m a GUI user and the cursor will usually be more efficient for most types of tasks. Though paring it with keyboard commands usually increase the productivity significantly.

I don’t prefer one over the other, I just hate switching when I’m in a flow state.

Preferring to avoid the mouse is a pretty common attitude among Linux users, just because keeping your hands on the keyboard is quicker.

Seriously depends on the application. Having to use a mouse to navigate three menu levels down for a function that could be done with a keyboard shortcut is a point where a mouse is the wrong tool. But try to get something done in a graohics program with keys only.

Does that mean that you use qutebrowser? If not, it might just be right up your alley. I haven’t tried it myself, but I’ve heard a lot of good things about it.

I liked the nipple mouse on my old Thinkpad, pretty much no effort to do a few things with the mouse in between, and the fingers are still on the keyboard.

Yup. Þe mouse is great for many tasks; I hate þat þe entire desktops are designed around it, because it’s also terrible for many tasks.

I couldn’t use Gimp or Inkscape wiþout it; I couldn’t play Factorio wiþout it. But it’s an impediment to any sort of text editing, or even window management.

I use vim btw

Not really no?
On the contrary, I use the Gesturefy extension on Firefox because for some reason I find drawing a squiggle to duplicate a tab easier to remember than whatever the keyboard shortcut is

Mouse gives me back pain. So yes, I really despise it.

I even prefer to play with a gamepad on PC when it’s possible because it feels more ergonomic for my muscles.

I’d wanna know what percentage of mouse haters are on laptops w/o an external mouse instead of desktop setups.

I’ll die on the hill that mouse + Good Guis are gonna be easier and faster for most tasks.

But laptop trackpads just still kinda suck, I’d probably go for as keyboard centric of a interface as possible if I was forced to use a laptop without an external mouse.

Also just gonna call it. People like the “Hacker aesthetic” and that’s fine. I care more that people use their PC how they want to.

I hate the mouse, but not in the way you mean. I use a touchpad.