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Like many others, I recently dove head-first into trying Linux as Windows 10 is no longer officially supported, and I really don't like a lot of design changes in Windows 11.

So I went and installed Fedora, and for the most part, everything's working great.

I use my machine for both work and gaming, and there are really two deal breakers right now on the work side:

1. Most of my work is web-based, and it's really surprising that this is an issue, but I can't for the life of me figure out how to get Chrome to use autoscroll on mouse middle click. In Firefox it's just there as an option, and worked great. The LLMs suggested adding a flag to the launch options (which was an additional layer of complexity because of flatpacks) but that doesn't actually work if you're using Wayland.

2. Google Drive. No native app. Was able to mount my drive with RClone, which works, but at the core of my workflow on Windows is using the Everything app (on hotkey) to quickly search my Drive files immediately as I type. I can't seem to get KRunner to index my Drive files. I add the folder path to the indexer, but it's not surfacing any results in there.

Gaming works great though.



> how to get Chrome to use autoscroll on mouse middle click

I'm using an extension for that: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/middle-button-scrol...

There used to be a more popular one, but it got dumped by Chrome recently, guess it wasn't up-to-date.

This one isn't perfect (eg sometimes it pastes clipboard on middle-click), but still it mostly works.


Thanks! This works pretty well.


Arg, but then middle clicking links to open in new tabs wont work any more.

Think Gemini 3 can one-shot a Chrome extension?




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