Who is using macOS with default settings?

[rin67630]

By default macOS has not activated right mouse/trackpad button and no tap-to-click on the trackpad.
Did you change that?

 

[Nermal]

If I recall correctly, the right mouse button has been functional by default since OS 10.0 in 2001. Am I mistaken?

 

[rin67630]

If I recall correctly, the right mouse button has been functional by default since OS 10.0 in 2001. Am I mistaken?

IMHO you are.
It ist still inactive by default in Ventura. did not yet test on Sonoma.

 

[MrScratchHook]

i think the last time i had to set my right click was on osx lion..

 

[gilby101]

no tap-to-click on the trackpad

That is correct. And easy to change.

Default settings are "safer" in case the user has a foreign mouse/trackpad.

 

[rin67630]

That is correct. And easy to change.

Default settings are "safer" in case the user has a foreign mouse/trackpad.

"Safer"?
Can you please explain?

 

[gilby101]

"Safer"?
Can you please explain?

A few people choose to use non-Apple pointing devices. "Safest" to assume minimal functionality and let the user configure anything else.

And for new users (coming from Windows/Linux), safest to have default what they might be familiar with.

It is easy enough to change and we all have our particular favourite settings - no one size fits all.

PS. I am not even sure about the right click (I don't recall having to set that), but certainly tap to click is not enabled in mouse or trackpad.

 

[rin67630]

A few people choose to use non-Apple pointing devices. "Safest" to assume minimal functionality and let the user configure anything else.
And for new users (coming from Windows/Linux), safest to have default what they might be familiar with.

In the Windows-Linux world, the right click and tap-to-click has always been the standard.
Only macOS asks to validate it separately.
I don't know any mouse / trackpad with only one button (excepted the very old Apple ADB ones).

It is easy enough to change and we all have our particular favourite settings - no one size fits all.

I just wondered who does **not** use them. (excepted the full noobs).

PS. I am not even sure about the right click (I don't recall having to set that), but certainly tap to click is not enabled in mouse or trackpad.

It ist still the case, and is still the case before you log in:
Right click and Tap-to-Click are inactive and you can't change it, since they are user settings.

 

[Nermal]

It ist still the case, and is still the case before you log in:
Right click and Tap-to-Click are inactive and you can't change it, since they are user settings.

Right-click is functional at the login screen on my OS 14.3 system.

 

[Alameda]

I have no idea!
I’ve been upgrading from one OSX Mac to another for over a decade, and my settings transfer when I upgrade either, so I don’t know what the defaults are. I think that’s a powerful testament to the high quality of OSX.

 

[1madman1]

I immediately disable tap to click if on with anything I use - Mac / Windows / other.