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    Less is more (files.catbox.moe)
    submitted 8 months ago by 0x4E4F to c/[email protected]
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    [–] [email protected] 80 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months 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 Café, a simple subscription will allow you to move the cursor and you can share it with 5 other family members through OneDrive"

    [–] jnk 19 points 8 months 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."

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months 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 11 points 8 months ago

    This is just so accurate 😂.

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months 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?

    [–] aBundleOfFerrets 2 points 8 months ago

    Yes

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months 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"

    [–] [email protected] 25 points 8 months ago (2 children)

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

    [–] sorghum 31 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

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

    [–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago

    And it will only break like a few times a year

    [–] [email protected] 20 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    Scare away the userbase and you can do whatever you want 🙃

    [–] sorghum 9 points 8 months ago

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

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

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

    Stayed away ever since.

    They're that good.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

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

    [–] Secret300 16 points 8 months ago

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

    [–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

    What's the feature?

    [–] 0x4E4F 8 points 8 months ago

    Not even the devs know...

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

    Fuck Gnome, embrace MATE Desktop.