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@trinsec mac and linux have similar features to show the mouse if you want it.
@freemo Yeah, enable them. Those features are life savers! Well, sanity savers! Whatever is left anyway.
@trinsec I just increased the size of my mouse slightly and it usually works for me as long as im at my home computer... in sunlight on my laptop is another story though
@freemo There's a little software called YoloMouse. Could try that out. ;)
No they are.. when you run on a VM it is indistinguishable to the software from running on the OS itself... the only thing a VM cant do is if it needs access to the GPU, so its not a solution for games of things with GPU acceleration, outside of that 100% of apps are garunteed to work because it looks identical to the app to windows.
What they mean when they say it isnt compatible is that it wont run on linux directly.
@sergeant @freemo If you want I could run Linux in a VM to placate you. π
But hey, I have a steam deck running arch Linux (which I still have to learn about but I recently got the dock for it so that should be easier). Valve did a great job with Linux/Proton support. But it isn't 100% yet but I'm eagerly following this development.
At the moment windows is still more convenient for me. But I'm sure that won't be the case in 10 years at most.
@freemo
I was a pretty hardcore Linux user for 6 or seven years. I pretty much defaulted back to Mac and Windows lately, though. (“Lately” being the last 8 years or so.)
One of the reasons I haven’t used Linux is that I do like to play games from time to time, and there was very little for that platform. Are you saying that you can run most gaming libraries under wine now?!?
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@freemo @IAmErik @sergeant Not quite ‘most’ yet, but it’s getting pushed hard. You can check per game what the status is. There’s fair amount of ‘Verified’ games for the Steam Deck, those you can usually count on supporting Linux. (Some ‘verified’ seem to be sketchy though, but majority should be fine)
At least ‘verified’ is in the thousands now.
@freemo @trinsec @sergeant Yeah, Iβve been running arch for three years now with no issues, performance specifically for Elden Ring and Cyberpunk exceeded windows specifically. Only issue is the few games with anti-cheat, Apex Legends, Dead By Daylight etc- I run a second windows ssd just for these and some work that requires powershell.
@freemo it's even worse with 3. I wind up jiggling my mouse almost constantly
@freemo MacOS makes the cursor giant if you wiggle it about. It's actually a neat little feature that feel like the old Mac days.
@john yea ive used macs.. its a nice little feature.
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@freemo That's why I've enabled the 'click CTRL to have your mouse pointer give some visual clue' in Windows. Man..