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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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[–] bluetardis@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I went with or orbit then 3 x expertmouse. Loved them but between coding and gaming they would wear out.

Current daily drivers is a CST laser trac (now xkeys.com) and a GameBall depending on how I am feeling. Love them both and can’t recommend strongly enough. Kind of comes down to hand size as to which will work better for you but my wrist is eternally thankful

[–] cronenthal@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Wow, I never found these before, they look really nice.

https://xkeys.com/l-tracbk.html

[–] bluetardis@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

They are more “industrial” in their style but very repairable. Just completed a ~12 year change in their bearings and fell in love again.