| ▲ | 0x000xca0xfe 4 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. |
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| ▲ | steve1977 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Now that GNOME wants to abandon it. |
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| ▲ | Andrex an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | *turn it from default-on to default-off | | |
| ▲ | shevy-java an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | It's still a change. GNOME dictates onto users what the developers think the users should use or have. I find that not acceptable. | | |
| ▲ | kstenerud 40 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | I once watched a co-worker completely bork a customer system by accidentally middle-clicking while moving his mouse after copying an ls -l of /usr/bin (where pretty much everything was a symlink to the real executables in /bin). Yeah, he shouldn't have been logged in as root, but the point remains that middle-mouse paste can be extremely dangerous and fat-finger-prone. | |
| ▲ | squigz an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | This can be said about literally any software? And as GP points out, it's not "dictating what you can use or have" - you can turn it back on. | |
| ▲ | szundi 26 minutes ago | parent | prev [-] | | [dead] |
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| ▲ | Gabrys1 an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | defaults matter a lot! |
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| ▲ | spookie an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | GNOME devs really are special. I wonder why. | | |
| ▲ | shevy-java an hour ago | parent [-] | | 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. | | |
| ▲ | RicoElectrico 25 minutes ago | parent [-] | | I'm pretty scared what userland piece of software will be re-written while ditching backwards compatibility and making the current body of support knowledge worthless. After all, we've replaced the display server (sort of), audio, init and service management, network commands (netplan) if not much more. My bet would be on a rewrite of CUPS in Rust. Oh, your printer that worked for 20 years is now a useless brick? What a shame, at least now the printing subsystem is secure and blazing fast. | | |
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| ▲ | esafak 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| PC mice haven't had three buttons for decades! |
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| ▲ | j1elo 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | 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. | | |
| ▲ | ffsm8 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | 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) | |
| ▲ | wafflemaker 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | 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 :( | |
| ▲ | olyjohn 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Ironically, Microsoft pioneered the scroll wheel. | | |
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| ▲ | tremon 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | 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 |
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