On Windows, if you click MMB on some windows, your mouse cursor will turn into a little ↕️ icon, and then you can scroll by moving the mouse cursor up and down, with it going faster the further you drag away from the position it was originally at.
This is one (1) behaviour I miss from Windows. Hours upon hours of scroll-wheeling makes my joints quite tired.
But well. Linux is nothing if not customisable, so I’m wondering if there’s a way to recreate this behaviour on it.
I’m on KDE Plasma.
TIL people use this feature and it’s for joint pain, cool.
Call it a reverse curb-cut effect, I first discovered it when I was a teenager, and back then I’d sometimes use it out of laziness or because it was quicker (ah how I miss being young and immune to pain)
Then when time happened and I started having arthritis flareups, it was there to help me, and I was like “heck, that’s a neat thing for accessibility”
i’ve come to this in the opposite direction as you. when i switched to linux full time; that middle mouse button wasn’t so ubiquitously set as you’ve described it (none of the windows systems i’ve owned had it); but the middle mouse button on linux has been ubiquitously set as a 2nd clipboard since the 1970’s.
i’ve grown so accustomed that the middle mouse button gives me a second copy/paste that i had trouble with it when i bought my first linux laptop and the built-in kde decided to mimic that window’s scroll just like you described it and i had to learn how to turn it off. lol
I like to use it when I’m reading, I’ll set it to move at my reading pace and then I don’t have to touch anything to read the article.