Yeah, I accidentally posted an early draft of my furry midget vore age regression erotica novel I was working with on a discord channel and I caused the death of several fellow men due to dehydration as such is the magnitude of my writing. I wished these souls didn't weight on me so harshly but I keep moving forward as progress doesn't have ethics. A minute of silence for my wankers.

Honestly don't know why people are up in arms and even posting about it. They aren't saying they are removing the capability, just the default. Big whoop.

It's been middle click paste since the 70s 80s maybe, so that you could do copy paste ad hoc without altering your clipboard content.

What might be better than turning it off is a onboarding screen that shows you how it works and you test it while the install completes.

I've been using Linux off and on for decades, full time for over a year now, and only now learned this was a thing after I distro hopped to CachyOS and kept accidentally middle clicking on my laptop's trackpad and getting shit pasted everywhere. I had to look up how to disable it because it was so annoying. I generally only middle click in web browsers for auto scroll and that's extremely rare.

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.

Grimly: “year of the linux desktop”

I'd be happier if they just fix whatever breaks click highlighting in the terminal. I hate that shit and I think it's accidentally attempting to paste via Ctrl-V that does it so F my habitual ass.

It is very easy to understand.

We should empower new users and show them better ways.

"New users" as you describe them don't even know that the mouse wheel can be clicked at all. The only thing to be fixed is consistency with Ctrl-C clipboard.

I hate it. I have it disabled in the kde plasma settings, and it's still on. It won't go away. It's fucking garbage. (Middle click paste, not kde plasma)

No it doesn’t, because middle-click paste doesn’t interfere with any other function. There’s no downside to having it.

It has to be the same everywhere.

I am on opensuse aeon and I don't care about the distro anymore. Same on atomic fedora.

Fedora can be used by noobs and pros, which setting should it be?

Most users don't even know that you can click on it because it doesn't look like a button. Touch screen doesn't have it.

But it should only be replaced with something more useful.