Post #2018270
2026-03-15 19:34 UTC
@hambier
I've been using mice with clickable scroll buttons on my desktop machines since the early 2000s at least for opening links in new Firefox tabs and closing tabs, years before I switched to Linux on my desktop machines. Windows does not use the middle mouse button for pasting by default (especially not with a separate clipboard like on Linux), but on the rare occasions where I help Windows users with IT issues, my muscle memory routinely tries pasting text using the middle mouse button.
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@srslypascal@chaos.social 2026-03-15 19:42
@hambier In 2014, I bought a Thinkpad T440p, one of the first Thinkpads where Lenovo's internal QA processes had broken down to the point of allowing some misguided person(s) to "replace" the physical mouse buttons with a multitouch trackpad. The result was an unbearable abomination, and thankfully not only the physical buttons returned with the T450, but the T450's trackpad assembly *with* those physical buttons is even compatible with the T440p, so I fixed my device with a T450 trackpad.