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A community for people using or interested in using trackballs, the arguably superior input device.

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My daily driver, I've yet to find a better one (www.kensington.com)
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I've been rocking the Kensington Orbit wired for years now and I've yet to find a better trackball.

Reasons:

  • works for both hands
  • scroll ring
  • big ball
  • wired
  • works reliably

I use the trackball with my left hand and a mouse with my right.

It seems like such a cheaply made product, but it just works so very, very well.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I'm not sure how old this community is, but I just started seeing it today. I feel like it, and this post in particular, were made for me. I've never enjoyed anything but the Orbit.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

As of now, this community is about 4 hours old. Welcome aboard!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

I'm grateful for its existence. Lemmy is the only place I've found anything but derision for trackballs.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Orbit with wrist rest is S tier. Orbit with no wrist wrest is trash tier

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

I mean, they ship with the detachable wrist rest in my experience, so regardless of how one feels about the wrist rest I think you're good. Unless you meant a separate one, which is almost as achievable.