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?
I much prefer natural scrolling for trackpads since I can do the same as on my phone: Flick it into the direction I want the content to go and then catch it once it’s where I want it to be. Even though I use different fingers, I feel like the muscle memory transfers.
I’m pretty sure windows defaults to that ever since they introduced a proper trackpad API, which was 2016 iirc.
For scroll wheels I use traditional. It’s what I’ve been using all my life and I found no reason to switch.