Wiggle wiggle. Hmmm…WIGGLE WIGGLE ah there you are.
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The KDE wiggle wiggle is a feature that was enough to convert a friend of mine. Game compatibility? Nah. Win privacy issues? Nah. Giant fucking cursor? Wiggle wiggle, baby.
Lol, I didn't know of this feature. It keeps growing and growing!
When KDE Plasma 6 was released and the feature was introduced, there were bug reports that it just keeps growing indefinitely. And the dev who implemented it was like "yeah, I know. I thought that would be fun"
When my son and I discovered it on accident we spent the next 5 minutes wiggling the mouse as fast as we could to see who could make it the biggest lol
When I moved to Bazzite I tough I had broke something
How are you enjoying it? I'm debating between Mint and Bazzite. I'm a lifetime Windows guy that doesn't want 11 lol
Not the person you asked, but I've been running Bazzite for close to a year now. While my intention was an easy time installing any Linux on a laptop with dGPU, everything just works so nicely that it's my daily driver at the moment.
The only thing that drove me alomost nuts was installing a TFTP server on console. But once I found out about distrobox that was a solution.
Again not the original person you asked, but I found Bazzite a tad too restrictive - I couldn’t for the life of me get PIA’s VPN client installed (for all of those Linux ISOs on my home server).
Ended up switching to CachyOS, which is also very gaming-focused (and Arch-based, if that matters at all!). It’s a bit more open, allowing you to fiddle (or not) with everything a bit more than Bazzite.
As an aside, my only hang-up is that it sometimes hangs while trying to boot up the GUI (not sure why, hasn’t bothered me too much), and it can’t wake from Sleep - but I’m pretty sure that’s just something misconfigured in the BIOS.
I have mint in my desktop and bazzite on the htpc/gaming pc.
If you want to learn to use linux and have a more tradicional pc experience, mint.
If you want gamming, entertainment, and don't care about learning about your OS, bazzite.
It's difficult to argue against Mint when your use case is a current windows user who just wants to drop Linux in its place.
Thats exactly where I am. As soon as I can be arsed im on it.
If you're putting it off you might be frustrated afterwards once you see how easy and fast it was, lol. If you make a bootable USB drive, which you should, you can boot to a live desktop and see linux running on your hardware before you install anything to a hard drive.
I have recently converted from Mint, including a brief stint with LMDE, to good old Debian + KDE Plasma and I absolutely love it. But I am also enough of an enthusiast that the few extra setup steps were fine.
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Oh, there it is!
I even have my cursor set to be large and neon green and I still manage to lose it.
I use the ctrl button to find it. There's a setting in windows that activates it. Great for work presentations to highlight where you want people to focus, too
I believe you have to install power toys and enable it. i have it to ctrl+win+f
Nope, it's a default Windows ability. You can find it under the Accessibility settings, called Mouse indicator.
oh I see. ok well powertoys one is prettier
Download and use mouse without borders, then you get the fuck "extra screen you didn't know was turned on and is in the other room"
I quite miss inversed mouse cursors from Windows, so the next best thing I found for KDE Plasma was Hackneyed High Contrast cursors.
I'm trying a new system of DM'ing in-person DnD games where I've got my laptop plugged in to a TV everyone can see, and my players pass around a wireless KB+M to move their tokens around.
It works well enough, but I have to remember to "give them the cursor back" when I'm done doing things on the laptop screen, otherwise they can't find it, haha
Meanwhile, in macOS…

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