I once watched a co-worker completely bork a customer system by accidentally middle-clicking while moving his mouse after copying an ls -l of /usr/bin (where pretty much everything was a symlink to the real executables in /bin).

Yeah, he shouldn't have been logged in as root, but the point remains that middle-mouse paste can be extremely dangerous and fat-finger-prone.

> GNOME dictates onto users what the developers think the users should use or have. I find that not acceptable.

Every operating system (or DE) does that. Hell, every piece of software does that. They're all just a bunch of opinions wrapped in a user interface.

Some may provide more opportunities to change the defaults, but those defaults still remain.

This can be said about literally any software? And as GP points out, it's not "dictating what you can use or have" - you can turn it back on.

This is like, the least bad thing GNOME have ever done. Middle-click pasting makes no logical sense and only exists as a holdover from before copy-paste conventions were established. Nobody would design it this way today.

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GNOME is doing something right for a change and fixing a common source of security issues.

If you like it, just keep the behavior enabled.