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    [–] kadu@lemmy.world 80 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

    Gnome: "you know what we should remove the mouse pointer, users should be familiar enough with computers to just constantly picture and map it mentally anyway this will look much cleaner"

    KDE: "hey you just tried to move your mouse, that's cool, let's pop up this panel right on top of the cursor to let you know the cursor is actually an applet and you can connect online to download 45 different types of cursor or replace it with a floating panel, there are also two extra icons next to it but we don't know what they do so if you click them let us know okay bye"

    Windows XP: "so here's a mouse cursor, yes it looks like the Windows 95 one. You see, some old programs actually use the leftmost pixel in the cursor to map their memory so if we change it things break"

    Windows 11: "welcome to Microsoft 365 Cursor CafΓ©, a simple subscription will allow you to move the cursor and you can share it with 5 other family members through OneDrive"

    [–] jnk@sh.itjust.works 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Perfection. I'll add one more:

    MacOS: "We had the original mouse and everyone else copied us so, in order to make you feel special and quirky, here have an exclusive inverted wheel mouse. Only 199'99. Your welcome."

    [–] platypus_plumba@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    My experience with Mac: "So you'd like to customize your cursor with something every other modern OS already has? Nha... but check this guy's project from the store. It's only $3.99/month for that! Oh, here's a free one with 2 Github stars, it only needs full access to your window manager :)"

    [–] 0x4E4F@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 year ago

    This is just so accurate πŸ˜‚.

    [–] MonkderDritte@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    You see, some old programs actually use the leftmost pixel in the cursor to map their memory so if we change it things break"

    What?

    [–] mlg@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

    xfce: "Here's our bi century update. We added some extra mouse pointers that you can choose if you want. Okay see you in 10 years"

    [–] Drinvictus@discuss.tchncs.de 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    It's ok though someone will make an extension for it

    [–] sorghum@sh.itjust.works 31 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    That's what the Mint guys did until they said fuck it and made Cinnamon

    [–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 13 points 1 year ago

    And it will only break like a few times a year

    [–] mvirts@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Scare away the userbase and you can do whatever you want πŸ™ƒ

    [–] sorghum@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 year ago

    Isn't that what caused cinnamon to come into existence?

    [–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

    They managed to scare me away with gnome 1.1 (or was it 1.2?).

    Stayed away ever since.

    They're that good.

    [–] MonkderDritte@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    Except they develop one of the two major GUI frameworks too. 🫀

    [–] Secret300@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 year ago

    I don't know why but this got me laughing so hard rn

    [–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
    [–] 0x4E4F@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago

    Not even the devs know...

    [–] XEAL@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

    Fuck Gnome, embrace MATE Desktop.