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It took me years to get my win10 install to a point that I was somewhat happy with it. I've lost track of how many registry edits i've had to do just to disable a feature I didn't want, or enable a feature microsoft wanted to take away from me. The numerous utilities I've had to download just to have functionality that was built into windows back in 7 or xp. I literally don't remember all the things I've had to do, and I refuse to do it again. Now microsoft wants to take away the entire operating system? No.
I just installed linux yesterday. It is a royal pain in my ass, as several design choices are just different from what I'm used to (middle click is paste? what the hell?). However, there's no ads in the start menu. Text I type into the start menu doesn't get sent to an online search engine. There's no proto-ai garbage. Oh, and it didn't cost $200 like my win10 key did.
It's going to take me a week to set up, as I have tons of data on many ntfs drives that I need to be able to do anything productive, and they're all "read only" because I think windows knows I have a linux install and now blue-screens every time I try to shut it down. (This is a problem because ntfs drives get set to read only if windows doesn't shut down cleanly).
FYI, you have 3 clipboards in X11. You have your standard clipboard usually used with Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V, like in Windows. You also have your primary clipboard, which copies any text you highlight and can be pasted with middle mouse button. The secondary clipboard is typically not used. If you don't like the middle mouse paste, stick to the way you are used to. I learnt to make use of the primary clipboard and find that I always realise just how much I miss it when I need to use a windows system.
oh deer lord, that's even worse than I thought. It's been less than a week, and it's already become the bane of my existence. middle click pastes highlighted text?! I need to figure out how to disable this.