XPost: comp.os.linux.advocacy   
   From: vallor@vallor.earth   
      
   At Thu, 23 Oct 2025 05:52:48 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D’Oliveiro   
    wrote:   
      
   > On 23 Oct 2025 03:30:44 GMT, Brock McNuggets wrote:   
   >   
   > > On Oct 22, 2025 at 8:23:57 PM MST, "Lawrence D´Oliveiro" wrote   
   > > <10dc74c$16ru9$1@dont-email.me>:   
   > >   
   > >> On 23 Oct 2025 01:23:27 GMT, Brock McNuggets wrote:   
   > >>   
   > >>>> 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.   
   > >>   
   > >> Free software is all about having a choice, not about forcing you   
   > >> to do things the way the platform owner wants you to do them.   
   > >   
   > > I am not forced -- I can have scrolling work either way.   
   >   
   > Interesting to see the people you are responding to trying to justify   
   > why the way that Microsoft forces you to do it is the better way.   
      
   When I installed Windows 11 Pro for Workstations in my virtual host, I   
   don't recall doing anything to scrolling.  Yet it scrolls in the   
   "correct" direction, i.e., pushing forward on the scroll wheel scrolls   
   up.   
      
   You'll note someone said they have to think about the difference between   
   scrolling   
   in a window and using the scroll bar.  I think that's yet another example of   
   "quirky"   
   behavior to "put up with".   
      
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