The Microsoft Mouse and Keyboard Center (optional install) supports remapping the middle button to paste text, but I don't know if that works for arbitrary keyboards and mice. (I have a Sculpt keyboard.)
Also, I had forgotten about the common use of the middle button for pasting as I have not used Linux desktops for a while. Maybe I should remap this now :)
It's not really making middle-click be paste, it's automatically storing the last text selection somewhere that's the problem.
It's normally a separate clipboard, allowing you to wrangle two bits of text at once.
Re:Using Windows after 15 years on Linux
by Beltalowda on Thursday April 07, 2022 @06:10PM
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This worked for me in Windows XP and 7, but no idea if it still works in Windows 10 since it hasn't been updated since 2005: http://fy.chalmers.se/~appro/nt/TXMouse/
About 3 1\2 months so far. I tried to be fair - but my article is not as comprehensive as your series!
I've read some of your series and I didn't see anything, but you don't happen to know if you can get primary selection middle click paste on Windows? That's the only thing so far that I've got no kind of solution to at all.