I run it on many of my devices, but I am absolutely waiting this one out to see just how useful it is, what’s missing, what’s not, and until it’s ready to be a daily driver. Very exciting.
So what sets COSMIC apart from the rest of the gang?
Full desktop environment with decent window tiling.
Wayland only, built upon only new code, pure rust as much as possible, native tiling, very fast apps
I am curious when they will release it as a full GNOME replacement, because that is a crazy task. At the current state, COSMIC is not ready at all. Even though it is already awesome.
Modern design they say? It still looks like 2010. They can’t even get the spacings and paddings right.
The project is motivated by “I like Rust, lets make a whole desktop in it” not by good UX.
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.
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.
Does it fix window scaling if you have 2 monitors with different resolution settings?
How far is it to be daily drivable, in your opinion? Like, crazy far or just far?
I have a few machines running Pop. It’s exceptionally good IMO. It’s like an extremely refined Ubuntu. It’s one of my fav distros.
Yes, I agree. Pop!_OS gets a lot of hate for some reason, but it’s actually a really, really good distro.
I was asking about COSMIC though, since I’m really looking forward to try it!
I have not yet done any extensive reading on what exactly distinguishes cosmic from the general Gnome DE.
It has no relation with GNOME
Ok so I need to learn more about it. Thanks.
I’ve been daily driving for a couple of weeks now, its been great.
Daily driving it is brave! I’ve been trying it out in a VM and found it to be pretty… temperamental so far lol. But obviously it’s a pre-alpha so that’s to be expected.
Yeah, it can be sometimes. But to be completely honest, my workflow is not that deep. I just need neovim, a web browser and spotify. Every other application I use runs natively/smooth on Wayland, so no problems there. My biggest grip right now is that I can’t change input methods on the fly for some reason, but I’m sure they will address it at some point.
Yet another DE?
