Comment by Aachen

I was confused when starting to use Linux Mint. Sometimes when scrolling fast, some text would appear, but not always, and I also couldn't predict which text. I suspected the middle mouse button, but purposefully pressing it didn't work so I ruled it out at first

It took a while to realise it is the combination of:

- having selected something

- hovering over an editable field

- pressing the middle mouse button

But now, a few years down the line, I cannot live without. It is so convenient to, for example, copy the password and then double click the username and paste them both with the flick of the mouse and a ctrl+v. Nearly every time I touch my partner's Windows device for 5 minutes, I run into a situation where it would have been convenient and saved a second trip back and forth between two tabs or windows

Default off is where neat things go to die because the discovery factor is gone, it gets forgotten, falls out of use, and becomes only a burden to maintain

> It really should be the default though

The current setting is a net win imo. What desktop environments could do is explain what just happened when you use it for the first time, so that you don't accidentally paste data somewhere without realising it