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Every KDE user has shaken the mouse once just to see how big it gets, this is a critical feature!

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.

The massive cursor during shake is literally what sold two of my friends on Garuda getting them off Windows 😂 idk why I guess the wimsy factor is difficult to account for.

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".

I will update as soon as I have found my cursor on my 4k screen.

Kde’s 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.

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.

Oh my gosh finally! I can enjoy the vector experience! I’ve always felt this was missing from KDE. I would show my friends all the benefits of Linux, but when I showed them by wasting approximately 1-2 minutes, you could embiggen your mouse cursor to absurd proportions, their eyes lit up unlike anything before. They wanted it the moment they knew the potential of infinite cursor sizing.

But I often made the amateur mistake of embiggening a few pixels too far and their delight would rapidly plunge into disappointment as they came to the realization that it was simply scaling up a raster render of the cursor in a lazy post-processed Easter egg.

They all leave the room in a huff, sending my attempts to reach out directly to voicemail, unanswered. But this. This will change everything. Thank you KDE. This is what we had all been waiting for.

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.

As someone who's eye sight is getting worse, I really love this KDE Plasma feature.

Often times when there was a big new update for GNOME, I'd try it out, decide I still don't like the concept and go back to plasma.

I don't get the appeal of that desktop. Even the tiniest changes need gnome-tweaks? Why isn't that stuff part of the base settings? But ok. You can't ungimp GNOME. The usage concept is baked into it. Fine. But why?

I mean there must be people who want this and nothing else, otherwise people wouldn't use it.

Calling Gnome simple and straightforward is quite a funny joke actually

KDE remains the superior choice.

This is genuinely a useful feature for people who easily lose their cursor.

common KDE w

You know what doesn't get bigger when you shake it?

Babies.

KDE wins again

Hahahahahaahaha almost broke my wrist shaking the mouse to see how big I could get the cursor go grow. Does it ever stop?

Finally, I was having issues with the blurriness of the big pointer

I love the big cursor feature. Its great for when I lose track of it.

I have fun with that cursor. Win for KDE

So even though I have been using KDE for months now, I had no idea that the cursor would continue to get bigger if you keep shaking it, thats amazing.

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.

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