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> See, I can make statements like this too.

Yep. You can say whatever you want. I have never seen a mixed mouse and keyboard user do things faster or more efficiently than a pure keyboard user. Pure scientific empirical evidence is on my side and no amount of rationalization will change the fact that keyboard shortcuts are faster once you learn them. You can read about some studies surrounding this here:

https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/30682/are-there-any-r...

> That's nice; you enjoy watching fledglings who don't know what they're doing struggle to use their tools effectively.

Sure. Who doesn't? There are whole sub-reddits dedicated to this type of comedic performance.

> That says nothing about achievable productivity in an environment.

Yes, it does. That they resort to constantly using the trackpad to swipe between speaks loudly to the lack of obvious keyboard functionality.



> I have never seen a mixed mouse and keyboard user do things faster or more efficiently than a pure keyboard user

You‘ve clearly never watched anyone use any kind of CAD or graphics application in that case!




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