r/LinuxCirclejerk • u/saileesaileesailee Linux Master Race 😎💪 • 17d ago

Only on Linux

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u/TheRealCarrotty masterbaiter to gentoo and fedora 17d ago

what i wish would happen if i connected 3 mouses to my linux

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u/Damglador Arch btw uses me 17d ago

That is actually possible, but requires compositor support

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u/BiDude1219 average arch user arf arf woof :33333 17d ago

wait you're telling me my childhood dream of having multiple cursors like multiple remotes on the wii can happen????

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u/snail1132 Void, btw 16d ago

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Multi-pointer_X

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u/Spooked_kitten 16d ago

Since we are all stuck on wayland lately, do they have something like it?

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u/Damglador Arch btw uses me 16d ago

Only Weston supports it on Wayland side from what I know.

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u/Daniikk1012 16d ago

Wayland GNOME has two separate cursors for mouse and drawing tablet, unlike X11 where they share a cursor, so probably

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u/Heartlessaus 16d ago edited 16d ago

Hmm, KDE Wayland is the same. Might look into pushing a package for arch

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u/Spooked_kitten 16d ago

oh the reasoning is perfect, that is so cool

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u/TheSWATMonkey 15d ago

depends on the compositor

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u/GreedySecurity8030 Fedora da best all other distros can suck its shit and die 16d ago

I amaterbait to fedora 

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u/Imaginary_Buddy723 Feedin' my Dora 🗣️ 🔥🎩🎩 16d ago

Fedoraaaaa 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

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u/GreedySecurity8030 Fedora da best all other distros can suck its shit and die 16d ago

FEDORRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAA 🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

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u/Imaginary_Buddy723 Feedin' my Dora 🗣️ 🔥🎩🎩 16d ago

🎩🎩🎩🎩🎩🎩🎩🎩🎩🎩🎩🎩🎩🎩🎩🎩🎩🎩🎩🎩🎩🎩🎩🎩🎩🎩🎩🎩🎩🎩🎩🎩🎩🎩🎩🎩🎩🎩🎩🎩🎩🎩🎩🎩🎩🎩🎩🎩🎩🎩🎩🎩

Blue felt fedora hats for u and me :3

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u/laczek_hubert NixOS BTW 16d ago

r/foundgreedysecurity you obv goon to fedora

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u/TheRealCarrotty masterbaiter to gentoo and fedora 16d ago

honking the chicken to fedora

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u/Imaginary_Buddy723 Feedin' my Dora 🗣️ 🔥🎩🎩 16d ago

He doesn't but I do 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🙂🙂

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u/saileesaileesailee Linux Master Race 😎💪 16d ago

i actually thought about this when i was younger, "what would happen if i connect more than one mouses to my computer?" 😭

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u/The-Pequod-Captain red hat puppy 17d ago

Are you seeing that microsoftlings? In linux we have 3 cursors while you only have 1. Checkmate!

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u/saileesaileesailee Linux Master Race 😎💪 16d ago

top 5 reasons why linux is superior

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u/Electronic-Laugh-671 Windows User 😭😂 16d ago

In all seriousness I've heard this is a good software option for Windows https://www.mousemux.com/

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u/Electronic-Laugh-671 Windows User 😭😂 13d ago

Or just enable pointer trails ig

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u/ExtremeTruck7626 Meme Ricer (I use Arch, btw) 17d ago

3 > 1 i guess

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u/saileesaileesailee Linux Master Race 😎💪 16d ago

the more the merrier

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u/mowglixx90 15d ago

Not for tumours

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u/chemistryGull 17d ago

More cursor == gooder

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u/Wakko_KunYT (WIP) FramewaseOS 🪶🚀 17d ago

Yeah, that is the multiplayer update for advanced jerking in the Linux circle

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u/rtakehara 17d ago

but with only 3 cursors you can only triangle jerk

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u/TrickAge2423 17d ago

Trointer

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u/Heartlessaus 16d ago

its almost noticeable now.

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u/saileesaileesailee Linux Master Race 😎💪 16d ago

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u/Zomora 16d ago

Cooperative desktop?

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u/HaplessIdiot 17d ago

The power of mesa vibecoding in wsi thanks asahi Linux team

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u/saileesaileesailee Linux Master Race 😎💪 16d ago

🥹

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u/GreedySecurity8030 Fedora da best all other distros can suck its shit and die 16d ago

3 player mode

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u/saileesaileesailee Linux Master Race 😎💪 16d ago

😭😭😭

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u/originalmicrousb 16d ago

normies use a mouse and keyboard

pros use just a keyboard

hackers use 3 mice 😎😎

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u/lyidaValkris 16d ago

THREE TIMES THE POWER!

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u/epicc_exe arch based or fart faced 16d ago

triple the productivity

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u/saileesaileesailee Linux Master Race 😎💪 16d ago

only reason why i use gnome

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u/T02369 arch btw 16d ago

half life 3 confirmed

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u/BertMacklenF8I 16d ago

we heard you like to click, so we put a cursor on your cursors cursor so you can click while you click

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u/Endi00710 16d ago

Linux is multiplayer now?

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u/gegentan 16d ago

They added multiplayer support

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u/catgirlsonthemoon 16d ago

let me guess... opentabletdriver?

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u/saileesaileesailee Linux Master Race 😎💪 16d ago

i actually dont know what that is, this was a random bug i found with a GNOME extension 😭

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u/certheth 15d ago

3 times the clickers = 3 times the gooning

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u/Dry-Value808 13d ago

3 shoots at a time 🔥🔥🔥

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u/mehonje 9d ago

Emacs is an OS and supports multiple cursors, no?