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by somat 1323 days ago
With regard to laptop, you need a thinkpad. it caught me off-guard when I picked up mine many years ago, because I was not looking for three buttons on a laptop. but it quickly became my favorite feature.

As an X11 user, I think that select/single button paste is one of the better features of the platform. I miss it terribly when on windows.
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rcarmo 1323 days ago
I have two Lenovos and a MacBook Pro here in front of me.

Believe me, when I say Plan9/9front/rio has a crap UX on laptops, it isn't due to lack of trying. Even when I ran an Plan9 "terminal" on a Pi with a three-button mouse, the UX was bad.

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yamtaddle 1322 days ago
> As an X11 user, I think that select/single button paste is one of the better features of the platform. I miss it terribly when on windows.

As a compulsive text-highlighter, I've always found it useless. Between that and not being able to copy-and-replace with it, I'd say I've used it by accident at least as often as I've used it on purpose. And I've been using X-window systems since before 3-button (no scrollwheel) mice went all-but extinct, so I should have been able to get used to it if I was ever going to.

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somat 1322 days ago
I can see that would be annoying, however for me...

Imagine if every time you hit ctrl+c or ctrl+v a dialog opened up asking if you are sure you want to copy or paste. a bit annoying, breaks your train of thought, and doubles your keypresses.

That is what it feels like to go from x11 to windows.

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