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When will literally any media outlet notice that the touchpads are what make the Deck really special?
I see this type of comment somewhat often and I’m always left a little confused about what I’m missing. The only time I ever use the touch pads is in desktop mode, which is not that often. What games use the touch pads?
Mouse heavy games, e.g. Sterallis, you simply move the cursor with the touchpad and click with RT or LT and it works wonderfully
I don't understand the RT/LT for mouse buttons. Such a long movement to get to a click just feels unnatural to me. When the track pad has a press to click why not use that instead? At least for the primary button.
You can set the actuation to require the slightest of pulls to engage a click. It's all fully customizable.
Pressing on the trackpad for click often moves your finger, which moves the cursor during the click. It can get annoying.
That works too but for me it's mentally simpler to pull another finger than having to press with the same one i use to move over the touchpad.
You can do that as well, I use that sometimes, but when you press down your finger will move slightly and you might end up clicking somewhere different from where you intended.