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> if your using Linux, you should expect that such things happen without your desire Why?

• doublerabbit 3y ago
  Because Linux is a community ran, free. You can't demand a volenteer maintainer to keep it the way you like it. You either accept it, keep back/change or incentive the maintainer. If using the second button as a eraser is the de-facto feature, then it's likely it's going to be implemented the same everywhere else. Or could simply be the maintainer doesn't like his art work, a sadist and changed for the sake of pure evil. Either way you can't expect anything to stay as you like it if it's free. It's why forks/distributions exist.
  • thereisnospork 3y ago
    The catch is that this is antithetical to what Linux 'wants to be[0]'. Linux cannot become an every-man's desktop OS when issues like this are allowed to occur. [0]Or what at least some Linux evangelists want it to become
    • doublerabbit 3y ago
      True, Linux isn't every-man's desktop OS. Linux is just a kernel to create an operating system in the way the creator wants it to be. You either hook on that train, find another distribution that makes you happy or make your own. Maybe the author should change to another distribution that doesn't have the change applied.
• nomel 3y ago
  Because, as shown here, there's no real testing for this stuff. You're the forever-beta tester, fearing every update. This has always been my experience with Linux, but I also don’t buy computers, and peripherals, specifically for Linux, which seems to be a very heavy requirement for a good experience, as the perpetual year of Linux on the desktop has unrelentingly shown us through the decades.