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[–] Rhabuko@feddit.de -3 points 2 years ago (12 children)

Big mistake in my opinion. Coming from Windows, it took me only one day to get comfortable with single click and now I don't want to miss it anymore.

[–] MyNameIsRichard@lemmy.ml 26 points 2 years ago (11 children)

I reckon they looked at their telemetry and chose the setting most people have which has the side effect of being more familiar to Windows refugees.

[–] Zamundaaa@discuss.tchncs.de 18 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (7 children)

Telemetry wasn't a factor iirc. The biggest reasons for this change were that

  • defaults like this (that only apply to new installations) should make life easy for newcomers, not for the existing users. Those users come from Windows, MacOS or other Linux DEs, which all use double click
  • it already is the default in pretty much all popular distros. KUbuntu, Fedora, Manjaro, SteamOS ~~and I think also OpenSuse~~ are double click by default
[–] MyNameIsRichard@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago

openSUSE defaults to single click. It's among the first things I change on a new install!

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