Like I said, this is the first laptop I’ve ever seen that’s missing the hardware mouse buttons. So that would be why I comment now. I’ve seen plenty of laptops in the past fifteen years, and they’ve all had at least two mouse buttons. Maybe it’s a market area thing. I don’t know. But the machines you’ve seen during this time period and the machines I’ve seen during this time period clearly aren’t the same machines. If I’d even considered the possibility that a laptop might not have mouse buttons, I wouldn’t have bought this one without taking a closer look at the photo, and being unable to see *any* mouse buttons (as the only mouse button is hidden under the touchpad where I wouldn’t have seen it), I would have gotten a laptop from elsewhere.
As for backlash, your comment to just “not play games” was incredibly rude, which is why my tone got more serious and I suppose more aggressive. There’s no reason one should need a dedicated machine for casual gaming, and this one’s causing me issues. Not that the issues are limited to gaming, but if I got a laptop more suitable for gaming, there’d be no reason not to do my non-gaming on that same machine, which would make the Librem redundant.
Until that comment though, I was just trying to put in a suggestion, hoping that future Librem machines might be available that would meet my needs. I really like the idea of having a machine with a free software bios, and I love the idea of my money going toward a company that’s working to produce open hardware specifications. But if the hardware isn’t functional, it isn’t functional, and my money has to go elsewhere so I can get a machine that’ll actually let me get my work and play done.
EDIT: Come to think of it, if no-button or one-button mice were the norm, why would there still be common desktop interfaces such as LXDE that don’t support them? I get that LXDE isn’t the most-common one in use, but I’d say it’s probably in the top four, if you don’t count forks as separate interfaces. It seems to me like having mouse buttons on your laptop is the more-common setup as I’d thought it was.