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Disabling middle click paste by default makes sense for distros aimed at new users. (lemmy.zip)

submitted 6 days ago by Blisterexe@lemmy.zip to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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Middle click paste is a very useful feature for a lot of people, but new linux users are not those people.

I personally switched two years ago, and got several people I know to switch too. Everyone I know who switched (including me) was confused by middle click paste.

It's a hard to intuitively understand action (took me several months until I understood it took the selection for some reason) that is very easy to trigger accidentally, and that duplicates existing functionality.

The people who like it already know it exists, and could just toggle it on.

Of course, on distros not aimed at beginners, like say, debian, it should remain the default.

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[–] Filetternavn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Is this not a thing in Windows? It's such a wonderful convenience, and I swear I've always used it, but I guess I haven't touched Windows in well over a decade at this point, so I can't say I remember.

[–] Holytimes@sh.itjust.works 5 points 6 days ago

It's not in windows. It's also something that nearly every new user iv helped and taught to use Linux over the like 3 years has removeded about. And iv helped hundreds.

It's been a pretty disliked feature for as long as I can remember for new users. I remember seeing it pop up rather frequently even back in ye olden times of fourms asking how to turn it off.

It's just one of those old school things that people are use to so no one's ever really questioned it. And being Linux there's always been ways to turn off the feature.

Frankly Iv thought it should be disabled by default for like the last decade now. It's a nice option but it does really make very little sense.

M3 is for panning and having it play double duty as a secondary clipboard is annoying.