Keyboard Jockey or Mouseketeer?

[BlkHawk]

I have been testing the early preview release of Windows 10, and the interface has caused me to winder how people navigate the Operating System.

Mouseketeer: You launch/use programs by clicking. Rarely, if ever use keyboard shortcuts, basically use the keyboard for typing.

Keyboard Jockey: Launch/use programs with keystrokes. Always, or mostly use keyboard shortcuts for everything, use the mouse sparingly.

Some hybrid of the two?

Windows 10 still has a focus on touch, and apps, not as bad as 8, unless you install it on a touch enabled device. Mouse navigation is less frustrating in 10 than 8 thankfully,

With the exception of web browsing I am mostly a keyboard jockey. File management, program launch/use 90% keyboard for me, but most of my day involves a terminal ssh to a remote machine.

 

[Patrick_S]

I use a few keyboard shortcuts in Photoshop, and i use ctrl-z, ctrl-c and ctrl-v all the time, i use the mouse for pretty much everything else that doesn´t involve typing/coding.

 

[bahodeme]

Besides ctrl+ A and typing, or if I am in BIOS, pretty much a mouseketeer.

 

[Supafly]

I use a few keyboard shortcuts in Photoshop, and i use ctrl-z, ctrl-c and ctrl-v all the time, i use the mouse for pretty much everything else that doesn´t involve typing/coding.

Same here. With a little more emphasis on keys.

 

[Jagger69]

I use a few keyboard shortcuts in Photoshop, and i use ctrl-z, ctrl-c and ctrl-v all the time, i use the mouse for pretty much everything else that doesn´t involve typing/coding.

Ditto for me.

 

[Ace Boobtoucher]

I honestly thought this was going to be a personality test. Mouseketeer.

 

[ban-one]

I'm a Mouseketeer. Pretty much the only keyboard shortcuts I use are undo, select all, copy, paste, save, and stop and refresh.

 

[Bluejaye]

A bit of a hybrid here.

I first used a PC when it was good old DOS and I have gone through 3 stages of use:
1. All keyboard, hardly used the mouse for anything, even in Windows.
2. Windows 95 hit and I started using the mouse way more than the keyboard.
3. Current usage, a bit of both, which has caused me no end of problems on the few occasions I've used that piece of shit Windows 8.


Hopefully that's not too much information and it hasn't thrown a DOS shaped spanner into the works.

 

[BlkHawk]

Guess I am an early adopter like Blujaye. I vaguely remember CP/M, that was Dos before Dos existed. Didn't even have a mouse until the late 80's, I remember people thinking they and GUIs were just fads! The majority of computers I log into don't have a mouse, or keyboard, or monitor, unless they are built into the rack.

The good news is Windows 10 will be much more mouse friendly, you can also disable the apps in the start menu. Microsoft has said they will add/remove features before the actual product release, so they still have a chance to improve/fuck it up more.

Bonus:
Anyone know what this does: pip b:file.bak=a:file.txt

 

[Bluejaye]

Bonus:
Anyone know what this does: pip b:file.bak=a:file.txt

Hopefully not too much of a stab in the dark. It looks like a version of "copy b:\file.bak a:\file.txt", from my old dos perspective.

 

[BlkHawk]

Hopefully not too much of a stab in the dark. It looks like a version of "copy b:\file.bak a:\file.txt", from my old dos perspective.

Yep, CP/Ms version of copy, oddly it copies from right to left. With pip a: is the source, b: is destination. Opposite of dos, and *nix.

Thankfully I don't remember how to do a file copy in JCL as that was several lines. If I dig out my old AS400 books I could probably wing it

 

[Johan]

Mousketeer
I use keyboard shortcuts almost only for gaming...

 

[knowone]

I had a mouse on my Apple //e, so I got use to it with the control keys.

 

[GodsEmbryo]

I'm a mouseketeer I suppose.
On my first computer (DOS) it was all keyboard, but once I had Windows I started using the mouse.
Nowadays I usually use the mouse except when I'm in a program where I have my hands on the keyboard anyway (text, coding, games, ...).