[berkes]

I have one of those at my current job.

I very much dislike it. Probably because I'm not used to it.

Gnome, my DE, has all sorts of 'scroll on hover' tricks. Scroll while hovering an app icon, will "alt tab" between windows of that app. Scroll over the volume icon to up or down it. And so forth.

At least once a day, all my windows get jumbled, or the volume set to 100, because the wheel was spinning while I moved my mouse over something. I did learn of some nice scroll-on-hover features in Gnome this way, though.

[pmontra]

I don't like DEs that move stuff around. I disable every gesture and shortcut in settings in my Gnome DEs, then I enable the bare minimum to switch between tabs of the same window, windows on the same virtual desktop and between desktops, scroll with the touchpad and basically that's it.

[83457]

Just have to get used to it. I hate using other mice after using free spring for years. I lock it maybe a few times a year for the occassional need of discrete scroll wheel steps.

[nikita2206]

But that’s also a general Linux DEs issue. That windows take focus on hover, this has caused so many unintentional hotkey captures by other apps or as you say scroll capture

[pbhjpbhj]

There are lots of options (in KDE at least), it's not like you have to have focus on hover, you can have focus-on- click, and IIRC set dwell times before focus kicks in.