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by jeroenhd 963 days ago
I mean, for whatever stupid and obscure reason, the manufacturer decided to hard-code the eraser button like that. The device was designed to have two erasers. If you used that tablet on Windows and switched to Linux, you'd notice the device wasn't working like it was supposed to. I can see why one would consider that a bug.

One user asks "why is my right click an eraser now", another asks "why is my eraser a right click on Linux". Which one is right?

To resolve this, the devs could've added an easy setting somewhere to control this behaviour, but I still think this can be considered a reasonable bugfix as the manufacturer decided on this stupid design. Linux drivers used to hack around that, but that's a classic XKCD 1172 problem.