justsoup 
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...
kontrollierterWahnwitz@justsoup Non-technical users that know about the middle click. And file bugs. Sure.
@kontrollierterWahnwitz Most non-technical users will just go back to an OS that "works" because they'll assume their mouse suddenly not working is either a hardware failure or a bug.
And, yes, non-technical users know about middle-click. This isn't some hidden feature that nobody uses. Now, there are no sources backing up whether they do or don't, that would be a good idea to collect feedback on and iterate based on that. Entirely slashing a feature at a whim is a very bad decision.
@justsoup To which other OS that uses the middle click for pasting do they go back?
@kontrollierterWahnwitz Older version of Ubuntu? Non-GNOME desktop? Maybe they'll give up on Linux and go to Windows where things break but at least they have a community that finds fixes for them?
My question is, why is the option not in settings if its meant to be toggled? There is already a mouse settings tab.
nina@justsoup @kontrollierterWahnwitz windows has middle click paste? news to me
@q66 The way I wrote that made it sound like I meant going to Windows for middle-click. What I meant was, if a user faces any friction when using Linux they quit and go to Windows. I've seen this many times over with family members who switch to Linux and then get minorly inconvenienced by an update and go back to Windows.