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   Brock McNuggets to CrudeSausage   
   Re: I ditched Linux for Windows 11 for o   
   23 Oct 25 01:23:27   
   
   XPost: comp.os.linux.advocacy   
   From: brock.mcnuggets@gmail.com   
      
   On Oct 22, 2025 at 6:02:03 PM MST, "CrudeSausage" wrote   
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   >>>   
   >>> 4. Natural scrolling is so unnatural   
   >>>   
   >>>      The next thing I had to do was disable natural scrolling. Whoever   
   >>>      thought this was a good idea should be fired. Off to Settings I   
   >>>      went. The feature was fairly simple to find, and I switched it to   
   >>>      my preferred scrolling direction.   
   >>>   
   >>>      That should have been the end of it, but no! For whatever reason,   
   >>>      I could not get Windows to honor the change. No matter what I did,   
   >>>      Windows 11 insisted natural scrolling was what I wanted,   
   >>   
   >> This is a load of bullshit.   
   >>   
   >> First, "Natural Scrolling" is a MacOS term. On Windows 11 it is called   
   >> "Scrolling Direction". Confused much? Strike 1.   
   >   
   > In the end, either way is something that a user can get used to. It   
   > takes about five minutes.   
      
   I thought I would not like it. Took a few minutes to adjust and now I prefer   
   it. Just have to shift thinking from moving the scroll bar to moving the   
   content.   
      
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