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11 hours ago
It's part of their secret strategy to turn oldschool Windows dinosaurs into enthusiastic Linux power users. Next they'll introduce middle click pasting.
11 hours ago
It's part of their secret strategy to turn oldschool Windows dinosaurs into enthusiastic Linux power users. Next they'll introduce middle click pasting.
Now that GNOME wants to abandon it.
*turn it from default-on to default-off
It's still a change. GNOME dictates onto users what the developers think the users should use or have. I find that not acceptable.
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defaults matter a lot!
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GNOME devs really are special. I wonder why.
It is not just GNOME devs. Try to interact with systemd-poettering or I-pwn-glibc-Drepper. For some reason the Red Hat centric guys are troublemakers.
More recently KDE devs also became troublemakers - first David "all must use systemd", then nate "I-can-ask-for-donations-at-will-by-placing-a-trojan-daemon-onto-people-whose-sole-job-is-to-ask-for-donations" (more about this guy here: https://jriddell.org/2025/09/14/adios-chicos-25-years-of-kde...) and of course the "there are no xorg-server users left on KDE, so all must use wayland". Developers became a LOT more like dictators in the last 10 years specifically. This was a change indeed. I am not sure what happened, but things changed. GTK is now also a pure GNOMEY dev-kit. Good luck trying to convince the GTK devs of anything that used to be possible in gtk2 or gtk3 - it is now GNOME only.
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They already did that by forcing "AI" into the OS.
PC mice haven't had three buttons for decades!
Third button has been "hidden" below the mouse wheel for well more than those 10 years, just press the wheel down and you'll hear a mouse button click.
And most Linuxes have option for dual click (right and left mouse button) to simulate middle mouse button.
Useful, as the wheel button is usually first to die in cheap mice.
Not useful, because it made it impossible to play Death Stranding on Linux :(
You'll be surprised to know that there are still some mice that don't support that. Admittedly, I've only had that happen once in the last 15 yrs in a budget "gamer" mouse I instantly returned and replaced with a Logitech g903 at the time (though I've switched mice twice since, and both supported it)
Ironically, Microsoft pioneered the scroll wheel.
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Remember Xerox PARC, the people that developed the first computer GUI?
https://archive.is/sKLL
> The three button Alto mouse enabled the first bitmapped and overlapping windows display, known as a graphical user interface (GUI). The Alto dates to March of 1973
My dude, my mouse has 5 buttons. No idea what you're talking about here.
I'm down to one. Less is more.
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