OS X has this, and I personally found it very useful, especially when I'm on call that wakes me in the middle of a night when I'm still drowsy and can't find where the cursor is.
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holy frick I love KDE. Looking forward to what they do next.
i agree kde is awesome
Thats why "easy to use" is very subjective.
Gnome is sure easy but if things mess up and i need to reinstall? I had to hunt and reinstall my extensions and enable the right settings. That could take like 30 mins or more, after reinstalling the distro.
In minimal setup like sway? I can literally git clone and then stow all my dot files. No more than 5 mins. I could do it with 10 beers at 3am in.
I just have a bash with all my extensions , takes like 2 seconds to run
GNOME just works for me. Installed the blur the shell extension or whatever it's called, and that's it! In 5 years, never felt the need for anything more!
KDE wins again
gnome was horrible to use, even simplest things that make life easier were missing. fucking TRAY ICONS so you can more easily access some running programs?!
made me feel like its system for bunch of elitist that can act snooty when scrubs like me cant handle their minimalist perfection.
Tray icons? You had to use Gnome Tweaks for the most basic things, like adjusting fonts.
i dont understand who likes to use gnome, its just plain awful and even if you customize it there is always a chance update breaks some crucial part of your ui
It's somewhat decent on touch screens. I use it on an old convertible Lenovo. But on my main system i still prefer KDE.
for touchscreens i can understand it, on those all the ui stuff that normally makes life easier doesnt help that much
Calling Gnome simple and straightforward is quite a funny joke actually
But ar least it's without features that ~~few~~ people are going to use, so there's that.
Gnome tries to be Apple but even worse
Kdeβs mouse growing big is actually useful though.
Ever lose your mouse? Just a wiggle- which is an action I take anyway to find it- and it gets easier to find, for a moment.
Lets me make the mouse tiny.
It's also a nice time waster to try and see how big you can get it before whatever it is you're waiting for is done
KDE - We added a neat accessibility feature.
Gnome - THIS GOES AGAINST EVERYTHING WE STAND FOR AND ANYONE ASKING FOR IT SHOULD FEEL BAD!
Yes, and the low-resolution pointer when you do this excessively is just unacceptable. I'm glad they're finally addressing this pressing concern.
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I turned it off. I never need it or want it. But I won't hate anyone else who uses it like gnome devs do.
That's coincidentally also what I do when I can't find my dick
Haha I'm so glad I'm not the only one who fucks up his hand doing this for no reason, one of the best things about transitioning to Linux
I don't need this feature even a little bit.
In lieu of this, I have consistently used this feature at least twice a week ever since I found it by accident. It adds a little joy to my day.
I think itβs more βI found a thing thatβs technically wrong and fixed itβ and that shit pays dividends down the road when technology changes and people forget this was ever an issue. They solved it now so they donβt have to solve it later.
I have fun with that cursor. Win for KDE
KDE remains the superior choice.
without features that few people are going to use
Every KDE user has shaken the mouse once just to see how big it gets, this is a critical feature!
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When you have a great product, like say a fork, there is only so much you can improve, apart from keeping it clean and not rust, to justify your job.
Hahahahahaahaha almost broke my wrist shaking the mouse to see how big I could get the cursor go grow. Does it ever stop?
No, it does not.
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If Gnome ran a restaurant, the waiter chooses the meal for you, and tut & shake their head if you try to deviate from it.
If KDE ran a restaurant, if you shake the menu it'll grow exponentially in size until it fills the restaurant.
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Honestly I really love KDE, but Iβm stuck on Mint, so I have no choice but to settle for Cinnamon.
I use KDE, but Cinnamon is what Gnome should have been. Cinnamon has just enough customization to make a person happy but it's not so overwhelming a KDE can be for beginners.
I do have high hopes for COSMIC after a few more iterations. They have something good cookin' there.
I really love this feature, it gives me something to do while waiting for pages to load in Firefox.
When I connect to my living room TV, I can have a cursor over three feet tall.
My daughter holds the current household record by getting the cursor size so big that the whole screen is blank.
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The massive cursor during shake is literally what sold two of my friends on Garuda getting them off Windows π idk why I guess the wimsy factor is difficult to account for.
Wait until they find it you can make the windows wiggle when you shake them.
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common KDE w
GNOME's design philosophy is "we've determined that nobody needs this feature".
KDE's is "we've determined that nobody needs this feature... but it would be really cool, fuck it, we ~~ball~~ cube".
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