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Re:Windows Defender blocks qBittorrent by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Monday July 26, 2021 @09:45AM (#27959270)
I have used other operating systems, including Linux and MacOS. While I am fond of MacOS Application Bundles, I do not like many other things, like single-button mice, limited choice in hardware, and relative lack of gaming.
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Re:Windows Defender blocks qBittorrent by djxfade on Monday July 26, 2021 @09:53AM (#27959359)
Apple's mice haven't been single button since ages ago. Right click works out of the box, and all of their own mice also supports right clicking in various ways
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Re:Windows Defender blocks qBittorrent by salamandersauce on Monday July 26, 2021 @10:24AM (#27959709)
Yet they still build the Magic mouse as though it was a single button mouse so it doesn't actually have 2 separate switches, just 1 in the middle. This annoyingly means that clicks don't always click if you're too far from the center.

Apple has never actually built a mouse with 2 distinct switches for left and right click. It's like they are too proud or something and "right" click needs to be faked for some reason.

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Re:Windows Defender blocks qBittorrent by djxfade on Tuesday July 27, 2021 @08:03AM (#27971418)
Sure, but to be fair, most laptops these days does the same.
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Re:Windows Defender blocks qBittorrent by vetinari on Monday July 26, 2021 @09:55AM (#27959380)
You know you can connect any USB mice you want, right?

Right now, I'm using a Steelseries one with a Mac. All six buttons and the scroll-wheel work fine.

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Re:Windows Defender blocks qBittorrent by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Monday July 26, 2021 @09:56AM (#27959397)
> You know you can connect any USB mice you want, right?

Yes, I'm aware of that. When I last seriously used MacOS X it was still the PPC era, and while technically you could use a 2 button mouse it wasn't really designed for it. Anyway, compared to other complaints that's a minor gripe of mine.

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Re:Windows Defender blocks qBittorrent by azalemeth on Monday July 26, 2021 @10:08AM (#27959528)
> and while technically you could use a 2 button mouse it wasn't really designed for it.

I don't quite think this is true. I'm pretty certain that MacOS 9 had a right click menu if you plugged in a two button mouse; I've used MacOS since version 6 and I recall distinctly right click being a novelty in OS 8.

Apple's philosophy always was that context menus could aid other workflows in the program, but couldn't replace them -- the functionality had to be accessible in some other way. Which, I thought, certainly makes sense if 90% of your users have a one button mouse. Could this be what you're thinking of?

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Re:Windows Defender blocks qBittorrent by GeekyBear on Monday July 26, 2021 @10:17AM (#27959628)
> while technically you could use a 2 button mouse it wasn't really designed for it

Nope. Plug in a two button USB mouse and it just worked.

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Re:Windows Defender blocks qBittorrent by smoldesu on Monday July 26, 2021 @03:26PM (#27964148)
Side-note: I really, really, really wish MacOS had mouse acceleration control in the settings menu. It's the first frustrating roadblock I hit whenever I set up a Mac, and it makes me just want to flash it with something else.
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