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Desktop Linux has inconsistencies everywhere that trash user experience relative to companies like Apple who have incredibly consistent user experience. I give

Desktop Linux has inconsistencies everywhere that trash user experience relative to companies like Apple who have incredibly consistent user experience. I give desktop Linux a try every few years to see where it is at. Copy and paste alone makes me so mad with Linux that even that single factor would make me drop it - bearing in mind that copy and paste is something I do every few minutes it's not OK for it to totally suck. If Linux really cared about user experience then I should at the barest minimum be able to use Windows and Mac copy/paste keys without even thinking about it. It should be said that Windows has pretty bad user consistency as well. Microsoft update the Windows UI but elements from many generations ago seem to pop up everywhere.

cherryteastain 3y ago
What's bad about copy paste? I daily drive GNU/Linux, and I never experienced copy paste issues. I also have both technical and non technically inclined people I know who daily drive GNU/Linux, none of them complained about copy paste either.
- rangestransform 3y ago
  Middle click paste is unable to be disabled, which really doesn’t play well with using the thinkpad trackpoint middle button for scrolling and middle clicking
  - pmontra 3y ago
    Middle click to paste selected text has been the X11 way since forever. I never used a ThinkPad so I have no idea about how that middle click scroll works and I refrain to comment about it, however it seems that ThinkPads were not built with X11 in mind.
- andrewstuart 3y ago
  Can I use the same copy and paste keys as I use on Mac and Windows? Without .... dread ... configuring Linux.
mixmastamyk 3y ago
I have zero problems with copy and paste on Linux and the extra selection buffer paste is a great boost to productivity.
willsoon 3y ago
That's not true. Nowadays, even using the mouse to move files works well.Of course, it is not recommended on any machine or operating system.
thefz 3y ago
> Desktop Linux has inconsistencies everywhere that trash user experience relative to companies like Apple who have incredibly consistent user experience. Because being a generalist operating system built by volunteers and supposed to support tens of thousands of hardware combinations and use cases is exactly the same as being a multi billion company building your own hardware and software on top of it, right?

cherryteastain 3y ago

What's bad about copy paste? I daily drive GNU/Linux, and I never experienced copy paste issues. I also have both technical and non technically inclined people I know who daily drive GNU/Linux, none of them complained about copy paste either.

rangestransform 3y ago
Middle click paste is unable to be disabled, which really doesn’t play well with using the thinkpad trackpoint middle button for scrolling and middle clicking
- pmontra 3y ago
  Middle click to paste selected text has been the X11 way since forever. I never used a ThinkPad so I have no idea about how that middle click scroll works and I refrain to comment about it, however it seems that ThinkPads were not built with X11 in mind.
andrewstuart 3y ago
Can I use the same copy and paste keys as I use on Mac and Windows? Without .... dread ... configuring Linux.

mixmastamyk 3y ago

I have zero problems with copy and paste on Linux and the extra selection buffer paste is a great boost to productivity.

willsoon 3y ago

That's not true. Nowadays, even using the mouse to move files works well.Of course, it is not recommended on any machine or operating system.

thefz 3y ago

> Desktop Linux has inconsistencies everywhere that trash user experience relative to companies like Apple who have incredibly consistent user experience. Because being a generalist operating system built by volunteers and supposed to support tens of thousands of hardware combinations and use cases is exactly the same as being a multi billion company building your own hardware and software on top of it, right?