You don't have to use a mac mouse, you can use any usb mouse...<br><br>Nathan.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 12/19/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">matt house</b> <<a href="mailto:matthouse@dsl.pipex.com">
matthouse@dsl.pipex.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Quoting J D Freeman <<a href="mailto:klug@quixotic.org.uk">
klug@quixotic.org.uk</a>>:<br>><br>> I never did understand quite why Mac's only have one mouse button. I<br>> don't understand what it is they thing it adds to have only 1.<br>> Personally I use a 3 button wheel mouse, and thats plenty. Left click,
<br>> right click, and middle click for paste. Technically I don't really need<br>> the middle click, I can chord middle. But its nice to have.<br><br>same as me. always handy to have a mousewheel and a middle click, why should you
<br>need to use both hands just to bring up a context menu.<br><br>it's a real pain in the ass when fluxbox is your primary wm anyway.<br><br>><br>> Why then, does apple insist on crippling the device so much?<br>
<br>I beleive it has something to do with apples opinion of their target market :P<br>personally I'd object at buying a product from a company that automatically<br>assumed I couldn't cope with more than one mouse button
<br><br>><br>> J<br>><br>> PS Bonus question for 10 points: Is mac bashing really off topic for a<br>> LUG mailing list?<br><br>we're not mac bashing, we're merely discussing the technical merits and flaws of
<br>various hardware solutions. :)<br><br><br><br>--<br>registered linux user #380291<br>Sakura: Home built AMD64 3500, 1Gb, 160Gb, Radeon x1600xt<br>Ubuntu 6.10 Edgy<br><br>_______________________________________________
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