I haven't used a mouse with overloaded middleclick/scroll for a long time. They feel like a bug.
To me it helps me not have to use the keyboard. Windows is a very hybrid keyboard/mouse driven environment (e.g. Alt-Tab is almost indispensible - but simply not how I think). Using the keyboard for things that are not typing is actually genuinely difficult.
Something like Gnome with the compromises their X-based history forces onto them basically means you can use the system without touching a keyboard except for typing, which is very nice. Alt-Tab and Ctrl-C/X/V are there, I think, but I've never used them.
To me it helps me not have to use the keyboard. Windows is a very hybrid keyboard/mouse driven environment (e.g. Alt-Tab is almost indispensible - but simply not how I think). Using the keyboard for things that are not typing is actually genuinely difficult.
Something like Gnome with the compromises their X-based history forces onto them basically means you can use the system without touching a keyboard except for typing, which is very nice. Alt-Tab and Ctrl-C/X/V are there, I think, but I've never used them.