[Klug-general] Hi All, greetings and a laptp enquiry

[matt house]

Quoting J D Freeman <klug at quixotic.org.uk>:
> 
> I never did understand quite why Mac's only have one mouse button. I
> don't understand what it is they thing it adds to have only 1.
> Personally I use a 3 button wheel mouse, and thats plenty. Left click,
> right click, and middle click for paste. Technically I don't really need
> the middle click, I can chord middle. But its nice to have.

same as me. always handy to have a mousewheel and a middle click, why should you
need to use both hands just to bring up a context menu.

it's a real pain in the ass when fluxbox is your primary wm anyway.

> 
> Why then, does apple insist on crippling the device so much? 

I beleive it has something to do with apples opinion of their target market :P
personally I'd object at buying a product from a company that automatically
assumed I couldn't cope with more than one mouse button

> 
> J
> 
> PS Bonus question for 10 points: Is mac bashing really off topic for a
> LUG mailing list?

we're not mac bashing, we're merely discussing the technical merits and flaws of
various hardware solutions. :)
 


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