KDE wins again
this post was submitted on 16 Aug 2026
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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!
yeah, I have a 65" TV connected and it gets comically large. I wouldn't be nearly as productive without it.
I knew the cursor got bigger but I didn't know it would keep growing.
It all depends on the stimulation.
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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.
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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KDE - We added a neat accessibility feature.
Gnome - THIS GOES AGAINST EVERYTHING WE STAND FOR AND ANYONE ASKING FOR IT SHOULD FEEL BAD!
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
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.
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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.
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.
If Gnome ran a restaurant, the waiter chooses the meal for you, and tut 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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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.
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.
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I have fun with that cursor. Win for KDE
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.
The cube thing from compiz had a similar effect back in the earlier years of Ubuntu.
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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".
fuck it, we ~~ball~~ cube
This is KDE we're talking about, so it would definitely be "fuck it, we kube".
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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
Guys chillax, there is only one respecting winner here; Thumbs down, XFCE.
Customising (not gonna say the racist word)? XFCE. Lightweight? XFCE. Can look like the other two? XFCE. Can be debloated even in the settings? XFCE. Supports both X11 and wayland (if that matters)? XFCE.
written by: (hopefully) fellow XFCE glazer.
P.S. Yes I mean that sarcastic/non-sarcastic. Yes I'm in my own bubble. Yes I use systemd free systems (and waiting for a good glibc-free one too!). Yes I'm autistic.
Isnt xfce less lightweight than KDE? Just because it looks like shit doesnt make it efficient.
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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As someone who's eye sight is getting worse, I really love this KDE Plasma feature.
Dude, everyone I show this too loves this feature. It's such a simple solution to an ongoing issue.
Back when I used Windows, many years ago, I used to have the setting that drew a ring around the cursor when you pressed ctrl. It was annoying when you used ctrl for anything else, and it was also visually ugly. You also had to remember about it when you lost the mouse, which is more difficult than it sounds like.
Needless to say, I love this feature from KDE. Not only is it way more intuitive to use and more unlikely to accidentally happen, but it also looks way better. And the fact that it keeps growing indefinitely is such a nice and fun addition.
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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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KDE remains the superior choice.
Oh my gosh finally! I can enjoy the vector experience! Iβve 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.
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Gnome tries to be Apple but even worse
common KDE w
This is genuinely a useful feature for people who easily lose their cursor.
Finally, I was having issues with the blurriness of the big pointer
The new update broke my login screen but god damn the big pointer is crisp.
I shake it 4 times a day for health and meditation purposes.
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.
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