We've all pressed Ctrl+C a million times. Linux solved this in the 1980s — the rest of us didn't.

Short summary

Copying and pasting requires four discrete steps—select, copy, click, paste—repeated thousands of times daily as invisible friction. Linux's X11 system solved this in 1984 with PRIMARY selection (selecting text auto-copies it), but macOS and Windows never adopted it. Pluks, a free tool built in Rust + Tauri, implements select-to-copy and deep-click paste for modern OSes, collapsing the workflow to two gestures with local-only clipboard data.

• •Copy/paste is a 4-step process repeated thousands of times daily—a hidden UX friction point most users don't consciously notice
• •Linux's X11 system solved this in 1984 with PRIMARY selection (select = copy), but macOS and Windows never adopted it
• •Pluks brings select-to-copy and deep-click paste to modern OSes, free, no cloud, built in Rust + Tauri

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