I have a brand new HP Pavilion laptop and I cannot work the right mousepad button in Budgie. I have a dual-boot environment with Windows 11 as I am new to Linux and am still learning it. Regardless, under Windows, the button works fine. I verified the functionality on it and on a website. The same website when I booted into Budgie shows intermittent functionality. When it does work, it is when I am touching different areas of the mousepad, not the region normally associated with the right button. In researching, there is evidently a noted bug on Ubuntu 22.04 dealing with speed on the right button (slowly clicking is not effective), but that is a slightly different issue. Also, one user reported that upgrading to a newer release corrected this bug, but there is no newer Budgie than 22.04. Any guidance along these lines would be appreciated. Thank you.
The latest LTS is 24.04.2, and the current stable non LTS release is 24.10
Both can be downloaded via Downloads | Ubuntu Budgie
Thanks for the quick reply, but I do have the 24.02.2 LTS version. I read when deciding to try Linux that the LTS was always preferable due to support and updates. Given this possible bug, would you recommend the non-LTS? What are the detriments of going off LTS?
The advantage for the user of LTS versions is in their name (Long Time Support): you don’t have to upgrade the system too regularly. For greater peace of mind, there are “rolling” distributions such as, among others, Solus, the originator of the Budgie desktop which update themselves.
The problem with scheduled distributions like Ubuntu is most often the kernel version changes this entails: the previous kernel worked, the next one causes problems (or sometimes vice versa, for that matter).
As it happens, UB 24.04.2 jumped between versions 6.8.0 and 6.11.0. Version 6.8.0 caused a number of problems that 6.11.0 will perhaps solve — unless it creates new ones.
Sometimes it’s enough to go back to the previous kernel, sometimes it’s enough to switch to the next one, which hasn’t yet been adopted by the distribution…
But as @fossfreedom rightly suggests, try with the previous version in the advanced options, that’s the easiest way :
Thanks for the other options. I’ll check them out in the morning. Forgive a possibly naive question, but are “support” and “updates” really significant issues when new versions are free anyway? I can understand when you are buying a software package and want long-term support, but if there is a new version of this OS that is free, what is the harm in just uploading it?
Your question isn’t naive, @Bacchus, there’s nothing wrong with downloading and installing a new version.
In fact, I’m the first to suggest reinstalling to correct minor system malfunctions — and it works quite often.
But even if it’s considerably easier and quicker to install a Linux distribution than Windows, I also know that many people are disturbed by the idea or are reluctant to make the effort.
In any case, as the system retains for a while an earlier version or two of the kernel which can be accessed via the “Advanced Options” in the boot menu, David’s advice makes a lot of sense, and it costs even less to try.
Feel free ! This is another aspect of the free software philosophy. 
I agree with the easier fix as a first step. It’s all a good learning experience for me, anyway. I’m an old MS-DOS user (pre-Windows in the 1980s) and so many of the commands in Linux are similar, so it’s been interesting already.
Just as an update, I tried installing an old kernel, but I didn’t have any as this was my initial installation. I then decided to try the newest Budgie that is not LTS. It installed fine, but there is no dock on the bottom and I haven’t figured out how to put one in, and, regardless, I still do not have right-click function on my mousepad. Any other suggestions?
Thanks for the feedback, @Bacchus!
As for the dock, Plank does not work with Wayland. So you need to create a panel in “dock” mode and add the “Icon Task List” applet to it.
Here’s what it looks like with these settings:
Otherwise, I’d advise you to try another Ubuntu distribution (Zorin 17.2, for example, which is still at Ubuntu version 22.04 — which might solve your problem — but is far from outdated) or why not try Solus, if you like the Budgie desktop? This original distribution is well worth a try.
Or switch to the 
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But perhaps the dock’s css needs a little polishing to make it a little :sexier — not to mention the fact that the top dock’s corners aren’t rounded unlike the others:
Well, I punted–I went with the less sexy version and just went to Ubuntu without Budgie. I guess that makes it “flavorless!” Anyway, my mouse right-click is fully functional, so my main issue is now resolved. I’m taking a course in Ubuntu, so when I get more comfortable with the environment, perhaps I’ll either adjust it myself or try a different flavor in the future. Thanks to all for your guidance!
Thanks, @Bacchus!
On the contrary, it just shows that “flavors” can create unforeseen problems… 