Poll: The Mouse Scroll Wheel: Would We Cope Without It?

[WafflesandBacon]

Yes I would very, very much. It's one of the greatest luxuries of my computer.

 

[superbatranger]

Not at all! I regularly have to use 10-year old mice with only two buttons because my school is Cheap.

Oh yeah, and those mice still have trackballs.

My university's library is just as cheap. Hell, the computers have floppy drives. Floppy drives!! Trackballs, you say? All hail the mighty ball of tracking.

 

[Dxz5roxg]

I've never even thought about it. Poor little guy. I'll be giving my scroll wheel a lot more respect from now on.

 

[Ulquiorra4sama]

Never! The scroll on my touchpad tends to get messed up and doesn't want to react sometimes. At those times i usually just leave my laptop and go do something else. The scroll is really important to me.

 

[Acier]

Anyone who has hear the woes of my Laptop can probably guess I go with out a scroll function everyday...along with missing many other things...

 

[hottsaucekid]

im on a laptop without the scroll wheel but the touch pad works the same if u rub the side

 

[Beltom]

Not at all! I regularly have to use 10-year old mice with only two buttons because my school is Cheap.

Oh yeah, and those mice still have trackballs.

Those mice are horrible, the lack of a scroll wheel feels really crippling and the track ball always jams.
We should all take good care of our mice, scroll wheels and all, else they destroy us. O_O

 

[JanatUrlich]

My mouse doesn't have a scroll wheel lol.

So no, I'm cool without one.

 

[Artina89]

I can live without it, but I must admit, it is really convenient. Let's put it this way, I would much rather have a scroll wheel than go without.

 

[faceless chick]

I NEED MY WHEEL DAMMIT!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Craftybonds]

on my desktop, not really. i've almost always used the keyboard to scroll down. on my netbook though, i would totally miss the little scroll side bar. it's hella fun to play with.

 

[TOGSolid]

I keep my old Logitech MX500 with my laptop precisely cause I can't live without having a proper mouse/scroll wheel/etc.

Thankfully mice are INSANELY durable and I never really worry about it crapping out.

 

[rosemystica]

I didn't have a scroll-wheel on my laptop's mouse. It drove me nuts.

But I recently bought a new mouse that DOES have one, and I am so happy! XD

 

[fd18e3d0-816e-11e4-b4a9-0800200c9a66]

My mouse is all touch sensitive, so technically i don't have a scroll wheel but i still have the same functionality.

 

[SturmDolch]

I couldn't. I use it too much to scroll around. This is a reason I HATE Linux computers. At least the ones at my university. With them, when you click the wheel, it pastes the text you had previously highlighted or something. Seriously!? The mouse wheel clicking is supposed to give you that scrolling thing that when you move the mouse up and down, it can auto-scroll... You know what I mean.

No, I stroke my mouse-wheel fondly every day.

Thanks for making me laugh.

 

[The Red Spy]

I have a laptop with touchpad control, no mouse and so no scroll. I don't think there's any problem with using just page up/down or the directional keys.

EDIT: My left mouse click is also broken and has been so for some months, so hurray for tapping the touchpad!

 

[KEGman321]

I don't use the scroll wheel. I have to use a laptop since the desktop basically doesn't work, and the laptop has a touch area for the mouse. I don't know what it's actually called, but hopefully you know what I'm talking about.

 

[Daipire]

The scroll wheel is beautiful.

It's brilliant in it's simplicity and effectiveness.

 

[Sassafrass]

Never! The scroll on my touchpad tends to get messed up and doesn't want to react sometimes. At those times i usually just leave my laptop and go do something else. The scroll is really important to me.

Mine did that, which inspired this thread.
Just restart your laptop, it should fix it straight away. Well, at least for me, that works.

Not at all! I regularly have to use 10-year old mice with only two buttons because my school is Cheap.

Oh yeah, and those mice still have trackballs.

My university's library is just as cheap. Hell, the computers have floppy drives. Floppy drives!! Trackballs, you say? All hail the mighty ball of tracking.

On a totally unrelated note, I miss floppy discs.
I loved those things, you could frisbee them across a room and hit some guy in the head.
Course, it was the teacher and seeing as I was 7 at the time, I normally got away with it.
Normally. >.>

 

[DSK-]

Yes. It is important in all of my day to day activities, but most importantly for the act of quickly switching weapons in video games.