• GNOME Does It Again

    From Farley Flud@ff@linux.rocks to comp.os.linux.advocacy on Tue Jan 6 08:09:26 2026
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    The asshole GNOME devs, supported by the fascist pigs at IBM/RedHat,
    have now made another unilateral decision for end users:

    <https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Firefox-MiddleClick-Paste>

    I love the middle-mouse button and probably use it every 20 seconds
    on my inimitable Gentoo/LFS workstation.

    The only problem is the pointing device (i.e. mouse). Instead of
    having an actual third button, the scroll wheel doubles as the middle
    button which can be awkward. Why does no one make a mouse that
    has 3 actual buttons?

    But the middle "button" is indispensable and its removal would be an
    act of total idiocy.

    The GNOME devs can go and fuck themselves. I don't use GNOME and
    I never will use that junk, but a LOT of critical GNU/Linux software
    depends on the GTK+ toolkit and that project is controlled by the
    GNOME assholes.

    The fucking lackey desktop users are to blame. If all those stupid
    retards would stop using GNOME, those asshols devs would wither and
    die.

    Fuck GNOME and fuck all GNOME users.
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  • From vallor@vallor@vallor.earth to comp.os.linux.advocacy on Tue Jan 6 12:25:45 2026
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    At Tue, 06 Jan 2026 08:09:26 +0000, Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> wrote:
    <https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Firefox-MiddleClick-Paste>

    "People that know about this functionality and really love this functionality can easily override the setting."

    What a whining weener.
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