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    Daily Challenge: How big can you get your KDE/Wiggle mouse cursor? (feddit.uk)
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    [–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 86 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Because shaking your cursor to spot it is kind of universal?

    [–] ahornsirup@feddit.org 13 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Fair. It still should be communicated better though, because it really does feel like a bug when you first encounter it.

    [–] Anivia@feddit.org 35 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    MacOS had that feature for a long time, it's pretty intuitive. I've never heard of someone thinking it's a bug despite MacOS being very mainstream nowadays

    [–] ahornsirup@feddit.org 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    We clearly live in different bubbles because this is the first time I've seen someone refer to MacOS as "very mainstream". iOS, sure, but I haven't seen many Macs out in the wild. It's certainly not common to the point where people would expect MacOS behaviour as the default.

    [–] Anivia@feddit.org 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    MacOS has 25% market share for desktop operating systems in the United States. That counts as mainstream to me

    [–] ahornsirup@feddit.org 7 points 1 month ago

    Around 15% here in Germany. That's more than I expected, but it isn't mainstream. At least not in the sense that people will expect MacOS behaviour by default on their computers, or even to the point where you can expect familiarity with MacOS from most users.

    [–] Pandasdontfly@lemmy.today 2 points 1 month ago

    Personally I'm going to have to agree with them as well I installed Kde recently and this exact feature I thought was a bug. When digging around on Google for about 15 minutes before realizing it was a feature I had to turn off.

    [–] fushuan@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago

    As the other commenter said, when I first encountered it I whaybI though was that they put the Mac wiggle.

    [–] Jumuta@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    I don't think it's a thing on windows?

    [–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    I didn't mean that the feature is universally available. I meant that lots of people will intuitively start moving their mouse to find the cursor, because our eyes are good at spotting motion and because it might be placed somewhere which matches its color.

    Maybe not everyone starts shaking rapidly enough to trigger the feature, but well, you don't want it activating all the time either...