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Have you ever been disappointed with Linux? (libretechni.ca)

submitted 1 day ago by cm0002@libretechni.ca to c/linux@programming.dev

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Personally I haven't. While Linux is imperfect, choosing the right distro makes the rest of the experience straightforward. And with it's whole complexity, I find Linux more user friendly than Windows. Even driver issues, broken shadow file ownership and KDE specifics only made me more confident about my choice to use Linux after I solved everything.

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[–] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 2 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

'Kernel' is probably the wrong term to use. 'Not easily user accessible setting' might be more accurate.

but you can set it globally to do just about anything supported by your version of X-Window, including to scrolling

I'm not aware of any way to get Windows-style autoscroll on any distro without a lot of hacking. That was my takeaway from when I spent several hours researching this a year ago.

[–] cybervegan@lemmy.world 1 points 9 hours ago

TBH the only time I've ever got involved with autoscroll was when a user accidentally clicked the wheel, and got "stuck in a funny mode" and the mouse was no longer working. I'm not sure how many regular users know it even exists - there are a lot who still don't even use the scroll-wheel at all.

In Linux, the scroll-wheel works as I expect it to anyway, so I've never wanted to change it.