• Grammaton Cleric@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Is no one gonna ask? Just me? Alright.

    Why are there two scroll wheels on one mouse? My mind can’t handle being this confounded

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      10 months ago

      I had a mouse where one was vertical and the other horizontal, but I seem to think the horizontal scroll was oriented horizontally. Having googled the mouse in the picture, it says one is programmable and suggests it starts with volume.

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        10 months ago

        Why wouldn’t there just be a small trackball on the nose, wouldn’t that be more practical?

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          10 months ago

          For navigating a great big thing that benefits from two axis scrolling? Yes. For literally anything else a scroll wheel might be used for, like swapping weapons in games? No. The clickyness of the average scroll wheel is actually pretty useful and can’t really be applied to a trackball.

        • Francois@lemmy.ml
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          10 months ago

          Because you’d be constantly changing your volume up and down slightly while scrolling.