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And soon new users will never know, as each great Linux feature becomes hidden until the default desktop is a awful as all the rest.
I've used Linux for five years now and always wondered who had the idea to put paste on the middle mouse button and thought it was just some obscure convention from the past since it didn't even paste what was in my clipboard. I never figured out that it was a different kind of paste where you just select text since it is never explained anywhere. I'd rather have new users not be put off by strange unexplained behavior.
Strange and unexpected?
When it doesn't that is strange and unexpected. It's relative.
This has been the Unix standard for 30 years implemented at MIT if I remember right.
Maybe a first use, explain, ask toggle. Instead of having to opt in.
They keep ruining Linux by dumbing it down!
Next thing you know we will be catering to mac users and all mouse buttons will do nothing.
As much as new windows users don't know about ctrl+c, alt+f4, win+d... Those who don't care won't learn, those who do, will, it's as simple as that.
They won't though, because they will never know.
I am not a fan of dumbing everything down and hiding all the good stuff.
Is there a big popup at startup with windows that I somehow missed with all the shortcuts? Or did linux became sudenly less documented overnight? Why wouldn't they know? Why do you think that users magicaly knows about shortcuts almost never referenced anywhere on windows but wouldn't know about one sparking a debate among linux users with a toggle in settings directly referencing it?