• kubica@kbin.social
    481·
    10 months ago

    Meanwhile yesterday I fucked up my linux installation trying to find alternatives on how to be use the wheel click without having things pasted with it :/

    I’ll be trying again when I am not lazy to reinstall it again.

    • ᗪᗩᗰᑎ@lemmy.ml
      461·
      10 months ago

      Click “Activities” in the upper right and search for “tweaks”, click the “Tweaks” icon. Select “Keyboard & Mouse” and turn “Middle Click Paste” to “off”.

      For Gnome ^ but I’m at work and can’t confirm.

      • Polar@lemmy.ca
        7·
        10 months ago

        Damn, someone who actually gives GUI instructions and doesn’t yell at the person? Keep it up. The Linux community needs people like you.

      • kubica@kbin.social
        6·
        10 months ago

        As far as I remember I tried that but it didn’t seem to work and some xdotool script that disabled the wheel click entirely. Then I installed kde, tried a few more things there, and then I tried to go back to gnome but… …

    • Scrof@sopuli.xyz
      113·
      10 months ago

      I recently tried out Fedora and it deleted my Windows boot files so I had to fuck with the computer for hours trying to troubleshoot… not to mention that almost all Linux tools can’t create a proper bootable USB Windows recovery drive :/ Never had this problem with OpenSUSE (I had the best Linux experience with that one for sure) or Ubuntu, they behaved properly with dual-boot install. I guess Fedora never again. And what’s with that name anyway? It’s dumb. Fedoras are a meme for a reason.

      • ferret@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        131·
        10 months ago

        Just make a Ventoy USB. Why people still bother flashing disk images to thumb drives is beyond me.

      • Untitled_Pribor@kbin.social
        10·
        10 months ago

        And what’s with that name anyway? It’s dumb. Fedoras are a meme for a reason.

        I guess that’s because it was a community continuation of red hat linux (not the enterprise one)

      • CeeBee@lemmy.world
        5·
        10 months ago

        And what’s with that name anyway? It’s dumb. Fedoras are a meme for a reason.

        Fedora Linux was thing before fedoras became the meme we know. Also, I would imagine some of the original Fedora Linux guys really did wear fedoras.

      • Kethal@lemmy.world
        1·
        10 months ago

        It is made by Red Hat, and they went with the hat theme. I used a few distributions, and RedHat was one of the worst. I don’t know why it’s popular.

    • CeeBee@lemmy.world
      7·
      10 months ago

      how to be use the wheel click without having things pasted with it

      This is the #1 feature I miss wherever I’m forced to use a non-Linux system.

        • CeeBee@lemmy.world
          1·
          10 months ago

          I know about autohotkey. I used it back when it was new. I don’t use Windows at all, aside from my Blue Iris VM.

            • CeeBee@lemmy.world
              2·
              10 months ago

              My desktop, my laptop, my work laptop, my TV gaming system, all my hypervisors, all my Nvidia Jetson systems, 3D printer controller (OctoPi), and (aside from my Blue Iris VM) every single one of my dozens of servers run some kind of Linux.

              Except for my firewall, which is OPNsense.

      • CeeBee@lemmy.world
        1·
        10 months ago

        Really? What happened exactly? Hang on. Are you using an Nvidia card? The Nvidia drivers can be finicky sometimes, especially if you have CUDA installed.

        • magic_lobster_party@kbin.social
          1·
          10 months ago

          I’m pretty sure it was caused by some nvidia driver. It just cut the upgrade process halfway through and in turn damaged nearly everything. Not exactly sure what happened. Either way, my system got so broken I figured it’s easiest to just wipe everything and start from scratch.

          • CeeBee@lemmy.world
            3·
            10 months ago

            I bet there was a relatively quick way to recover it. One thing that’s amazing about Linux is that it’s not locked up like Windows or a Mac.

            I’ve practically destroyed systems (entirely my fault) but was still able to fix it.

            I even mucked around on a laptop with a LUKS encrypted drive to add a dual boot with another Linux distro. I ended up destroying grub completely. I was back up with both distros working and without a single file lost in 30 minutes.

            • magic_lobster_party@kbin.social
              1·
              10 months ago

              Maybe. I did some attempts to recover it, like reinstalling all broken packages. But everything I did seemed to break it even more. Any “simple” fix at my skill level would probably take weeks for me to find. So I gave up, backed up all essentials, and then wiped everything. Back up and running much quicker.