Have you ever tried disconnecting your mouse, turning off any pointer devices, and just using your keyboard to interact with your computer?
Is it worth the boost in efficiency to learn the key shortcuts for the different applications you use, when mouse tends to be far more intuitive and simple?
I personally hate the trend towards bigger, more mouse-centric gui. It's ugly, impractical, and a waste of space.
I'm not saying everything needs to be tiling wm levels of unintuitive, but I feel like design has taken a turn towards mouse/touch based since smart phones and tablets became mainstream.
If we're talking specifically about text editing, it's definitely worth it. It's the reason things like vim and tmux exist.
>>53705564
seems like a good exercise to finally master keyboard shortcuts
i'll try it next week
thanks op
>>53705564
Simply put, it's slower and some programs don't even have tab selection for every option.
Alt + o-n-i-i to add rows on excel 2016 is faster than using the mouse
This post is bait. yes. Shortcuts = shorter. Depending on what keys you need pressed, and how often, yes. For cash registers and text editors, that's the shit. Other things, you might be forced into using a mouse and only some shortcuts are as efficient, it's objective
>>53706170
Weird. On my excel 2016 it's alt+h+i+i
yes. it was nice, and then i realized i was on linux and it doesn't have any accessibility options like windows does
>>53705564
Not to the extent of completely disabling my mouse as shitposting and general web page navigation would be a pain in the ass, but recently I installed i3 and have been messing around with using the keyboard as much as possible and have found that any program with a consistent user interface (ie not webpages) that doesn't have gratuitous amount of commands (more than one could easily remember) is definitely faster with the keyboard. Emailing people feels much faster and easier.
>>53706271
Mine is in spanish...
>>53705564
cut
copy
paste
select all
alt/shift/ctrl clicking
alt tab
are all I can think of that you should learn for general window and file navigation
the first thing I do when running a new program is find out the hotkey for the options menu. depending on how often you use the program, you should probably learn the hotkeys. i wonder if windows 8 was worse off with keyboard navigation, considering how atrocious the ui looked.
>>53706332
>translating mnemonics for shortcuts, because of course they will be easier to remember
I wonder if decades from now this will be considered a crime against humanity.
Just thinking about the fact that someone was paid to come up with that
>>53706540
Years from now people will probs be able to speak what they want.
"Search under 18 kiddie porn rape".
>>53705564
>Have you ever tried disconnecting your mouse, turning off any pointer devices, and just using your keyboard to interact with your computer?
Yes. Browsing is generally a hassle that way, so I still use my mouse for that.
>Is it worth the boost in efficiency to learn the key shortcuts for the different applications you use, when mouse tends to be far more intuitive and simple?
Yes. Mouse/keyboard round trips are very slow.
>I personally hate the trend towards bigger, more mouse-centric gui. It's ugly, impractical, and a waste of space.
Then join us and switch over to using the terminal and command line programs for everything.
>I'm not saying everything needs to be tiling wm levels of unintuitive, but I feel like design has taken a turn towards mouse/touch based since smart phones and tablets became mainstream.
It's just normies being normies. You don't have to follow in their footsteps, anon, you have the willpower to break free.
Go install a tiling WM today.
