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Re:Things I can’t do on macOS which I can do on Ubuntu (2020) by goosedragons on Tuesday April 26, 2022 @06:06PM (#31173760)
Some of the defaults are just plain bad and assume you never want or need to use another computer. The scroll wheel thing is particularly bad. Like imagine if Apple decided all their laptops now were going to come with Dvorak keyboards instead of Qwerty. "Sorry Gram, I need to change your keyboard layout before I can solve your computer problem".

Don't mess with users' muscle memories for your design for literally no gain. That's bad design.

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Re:Things I can’t do on macOS which I can do on Ubuntu (2020) by pfranz on Tuesday April 26, 2022 @08:27PM (#31174846)
Honestly, I think Apple just forgets people use a mouse. The default trackpad scroll direction matches iPads and touchscreens. Their oversight was coupling trackpad and mouse wheel scroll direction. Until I had a job where I needed both I didn't really care...and I found an open source utility that addressed it[1].

[1] https://github.com/Caldis/Mos

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