Sort of! I grew up with a mix of mice and trackballs (my mother was a diehard baller since the late 80s and still is,) I own several, and... I guess the best way I can describe my feeling is that the trackball feels like the hero we deserve, but I am too small and pitiful a creature to appreciate it fully. I have never been able to main a trackball for very long and I can't fully explain why. They are in several ways objectively superior to mice, and the only real problem I can think of (the mechanical ball gathering dust, etc.) is possibly solvable.
I was just speculating the other day on whether you couldn't simply turn an optical mouse mechanism upside down, mount it to a spherical ultra-fisheye lens, and then have it track the texture of your finger exactly as it does a desk surface. it should work, right? this would produce a trackball with a nonmoving ball, and with modern oleophobic coatings it should be possible to keep it clean.
i have also logged one hour in the cockpit of the microsoft easyball and if they ever bring it back maybe i'll finally switch


































