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Is no one gonna ask? Just me? Alright.
Why are there two scroll wheels on one mouse? My mind can't handle being this confounded
Yo, dawg. I heard you liked scrolling so we put a wheel behind your wheel so you can scroll while you scroll.
Scroll wheel 2
I've got one of these for Photoshop. I've got the front wheel set up as normal, but the second wheel is set to change the brush size. It makes working much smoother, as I don't have to use the keyboard.
Well lah-di-dah for you.
Bhopping in csgo
I had a mouse where one was vertical and the other horizontal, but I seem to think the horizontal scroll was oriented horizontally. Having googled the mouse in the picture, it says one is programmable and suggests it starts with volume.
Why wouldn't there just be a small trackball on the nose, wouldn't that be more practical?
Because you'd be constantly changing your volume up and down slightly while scrolling.
For navigating a great big thing that benefits from two axis scrolling? Yes. For literally anything else a scroll wheel might be used for, like swapping weapons in games? No. The clickyness of the average scroll wheel is actually pretty useful and can't really be applied to a trackball.
This mouse model was made decades ago for the time when would come the chosen one. The scroll master. He's here to equilibrate the world with his scroll powers. Zoom in, zoom out. Volume up, volume down. Everything is possible, with, THE. DOUBLE. SCROLL. WHEEL.
Are you colorblind? Serious question, the mouse on the right is the unopenened one bought at the same time as the left one, which OP used daily for 11 years. The left one has all the red color rubbed off.
One is deteriorated by years of palm grease, the other is unadorned by grabber sweat.
I don't even get the difference between the two... What is this post about?