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It's part of their secret strategy to turn oldschool Windows dinosaurs into enthusiastic Linux power users. Next they'll introduce middle click pasting.
by 0x000xca0xfe 9mo 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.
- esafak 9mo agoPC mice haven't had three buttons for decades!
- j1elo 9mo agoThird 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.
- olyjohn 9mo agoIronically, Microsoft pioneered the scroll wheel.
- ffsm8 9mo agoYou'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 9mo agoAnd 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 :(
- tremon 9mo agoRemember Xerox PARC, the people that developed the first computer GUI? https://archive.is/sKLL 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
- bigstrat2003 9mo agoMy dude, my mouse has 5 buttons. No idea what you're talking about here.
- esafak 9mo agoI'm down to one. Less is more.
- SturgeonsLaw 9mo agoIs that one of those innovative designs with the charging port on the bottom of the mouse? Sometimes more is more.
- esafak 9mo agoIt sounds dumb but the battery lasts long and charges quickly, so I think they made the right decision.
- steve1977 9mo agoNow that GNOME wants to abandon it.
- spookie 9mo agoGNOME devs really are special. I wonder why.
- shevy-java 9mo agoIt 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/ 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 9mo agoI'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.
- shakna 9mo agoWell, as Apple has basically abandoned CUPS, and not everyone uses the OpenPrinting fork, things in that space are getting "fun".
- leptons 9mo agoThey already did that by forcing "AI" into the OS.
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