Re: CRAP Poll: My Mouse Is...

On 5/31/2024 3:26 AM, Anssi Saari wrote:

Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> writes:
 

Maybe it's just me -or the average mice I use- but I've never really
seen/felt much advantage from mouse pads. Or rather, not from a mouse
pad over an average surface (there are times when a mouse pad is
absolutely necessary because the table you're on is just so shitty
that the mouse can't pick up anything, but in that case a piece of
paper would work just as well).

 :) Last decade the stock mice from Dell and Lenovo couldn't cope with
this rare and exotic desk material called "wood". As for paper, it tends
to move or the edges get crinkled. Replacements are certainly cheap for
paper though.
 Anyways, slick plastic or wood desktop surfaces feel somehow too
slippery to me. And there's that annoying hissing noise to consider
too. Or maybe I'm just used to having something under the mouse.

Same.  My desk is old, no I mean *old* like from the 60's, inherited from my Grandfather and has a 2" raised lip around the edge with a 1/8" recess between it and the rest of the desk which makes not having a mat really not work well for a mouse as it skips and bumps when going over that part.  I love the desk as it has real drawers! which seems to be a rarity these days.  My wife occasionally asks me to replace it as it's well worn and used.  I occasionally consider a sit-stand adjustable desk, but that's a big expense.
I have a large "steelseries" black fabric topped rubber mat, with a harder plastic one underneath it to make the transition more of a slope than a bump, and that works well for me.
I don't like the textured plastic ones as the mouse slips a bit too much, and seems like they were originally made for a ball mice, some also don't seem like the optical mice can pick up the laser well and skip or don't move.  They're also louder moving the mouse around.
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