Course set: the first alpha of Pop_OS 24.04 is scheduled for release on August 8th. So if you've been counting the days until you can try the new COSMIC
Don’t get me wrong I guess I’m glad to see a bit more diversity in the DE space, but the design of cosmic has always been “Gnome but a bit dated and uglier” to me.
Still, theming exists despite the quirks it can cause sometimes, so it’s not the end of the world.
I’m still going to have a little mess around with it and see what it’s like though.
When I used Pop!_OS I disabled their extensions because it felt way more clunky than stock GNOME. The applications menu looks out of place and the bottom bar wastes so much vertical space by default. In the end I just switched to Fedora when I got more comfortable with Linux. I’m a little sad that this looks exactly like GNOME with the extensions baked in and not something novel entirely. It is, however, exciting to see a new player enter the field and learn from their approach.
Correct. They have the history of “the best use of desktop space” from unity DE. Although I will not forgive canonical for dropping unity, the gnome they have is close.
Modern design they say? It still looks like 2010. They can’t even get the spacings and paddings right.
Yeah.
Don’t get me wrong I guess I’m glad to see a bit more diversity in the DE space, but the design of cosmic has always been “Gnome but a bit dated and uglier” to me.
Still, theming exists despite the quirks it can cause sometimes, so it’s not the end of the world.
I’m still going to have a little mess around with it and see what it’s like though.
The project is motivated by “I like Rust, lets make a whole desktop in it” not by good UX.
When I used Pop!_OS I disabled their extensions because it felt way more clunky than stock GNOME. The applications menu looks out of place and the bottom bar wastes so much vertical space by default. In the end I just switched to Fedora when I got more comfortable with Linux. I’m a little sad that this looks exactly like GNOME with the extensions baked in and not something novel entirely. It is, however, exciting to see a new player enter the field and learn from their approach.
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I think stock Ubuntu looks sexy af. Plus, they make great use of your Desktop space. Barely any clutter in the way. But that’s just personal taste.
Correct. They have the history of “the best use of desktop space” from unity DE. Although I will not forgive canonical for dropping unity, the gnome they have is close.
I like Cinnamon.