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One Week: No Mouse, Just Keyboard

Posted by timothy on from the trackball-also-off-the-table dept.

jfruhlinger writes "Anyone in tech has heard from grousing old-timers who believe the GUI was the beginning of the end of civilization and that EMacs keyboard shortcuts are all the interface anyone should need. But can someone use a modern consumer OS without laying hands on a mouse? Kevin Purdy gave it a week-long try."

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  1. Opera's spatial navigation by TheCyberShadow · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I'm surprised nothing was said about spatial navigation (particularly because Opera touts this as a big feature). It looks like Chrome is getting this too, though.