Despite being a heavy cell phone user for more than 25 years, it only recently occurred to me that vertical navigation on most phones is inverted when compared to traditional computers. You swipe down to navigate upward, and up to navigate downward. I recently spent time using a MacBook, which apparently defaults to this “natural” scrolling (mobile-style), and I was completely thrown off by it.
I’ve been using natural scrolling on a couple of my own desktops ever since, mostly as a mental exercise, and I wondered…how many of you folks prefer this method?
IMO it depends if you use a trackpad or not. It follows how you would move an object in the real world.
One thing I really like about macs is their trackpads & corresponding algorithm. I’ve almost been able to replicate it on my OpenBSD machine, but I can never quite get the feel just right.
I view it as controlling the scroll bar rather than the content. Down moves the bar down. Up moves the bar up.
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