Should I get a PS/2 mouse and keyboard?The only advantage I've heard is that they will keep working regardless of drivers.
>>107852353No?
>>107852353Do what you want?
>>107852382I need the /g/ hivemind to take a decision for me.
>>107852394Why do you want to use PS/2?
>>107852400It's interesting, I've never tried it before
>>107852427Nobody is stopping you.
Does your board even have ps2 ports?The keyboard might be useful in some situations, I'd skip the mouse unless you're doing some retro stuff.You can probably find either for less than $2, maybe $free.
>>107852353No. I forget exactly what the limitation was, I think you can't press three keys at a time or something, because of interrupts, so USB is best.
>>107852490>Does your board even have ps2 ports?this
>>107852568>No. I forget exactly what the limitation was, I think you can't press three keys at a time or something, because of interrupts, so USB is best.I watched a linus video and he said it was the opposite. You can press as many keys as you want and it will always work.>>107852490yeah I do
>>107852615Yeah its been a few years since I had one, but there was this annoying, obvious limitation that solidified my choice of USB over PS2. However, if your motherboard has a port for it, why not? Always good to have a spare keyboard, plus it will work from the moment that the power comes on to your PC, which is handy sometimes.
>>107852353I don't really see the point outside of screwing with retro computers. You'll find that the experience is more or less the same, except you may not be able to hotswap PS/2 devices.
>>107852353>driversWho cares?The real benefit is how fast and efficient it is, in the sense that it can stop the cpu to tell it you did something and it has to take input, while USB can't do that, so the cpu has to constantly ask the peripherals if you moved the mouse or typed something.The killing drawback, the reason we stopped using it entirely, is that it isn't hot swappable.
