I’ve never tried a trackball. How efficient are they compared to mice?

As in, are tasks like selecting a range of text much slower to do? How about first-person camera aiming? Trackpads for example are at least 2x worse at both.

This would be a good time to get those projects/communities off Discord that are there just because they couldn’t find anywhere else to go. Forums were not the right fit (too distant-feeling and clunky), but chatrooms aren’t it either (no permanence).