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

[Nathan Friend]

You don't have to use a mac mouse, you can use any usb mouse...

Nathan.

On 12/19/06, matt house <matthouse at dsl.pipex.com> wrote:
>
> 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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