Why in the world is GNOME disabling middle click? That feels like such a tiny innocuous change with no real bearing on anything? Like, that just messes up users' workflows that use it for no reason at all, and since GNOME is the default desktop on a lot of distros, this will mess up non-technical users and they'll file bugs. I don't want to deal with this from a distro's perspective. I know you can re-enable the option... *from GNOME tweaks*, which they don't support anymore...

#GNOME #Linux

I also see everybody only linking The Register's article on this. Here's the actual sources.

https://phabricator.services.mozilla.com/D277804
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gsettings-desktop-schemas/-/merge_requests/119

⚙ D277804 Bug 1747207 - Disable middlemouse.paste on XP_UNIX by default. r?rmader