From what I saw Cosmic has a lot of potential and looks pretty sleek too, right now I’m using KDE it’s a great desktop, but now that I have a second monitor it randomly crashes on me, I think I’ll switch to Cosmic when it reaches beta.

  • @ikidd@lemmy.worldEnglish
    19•9 months ago

    Well, since Cosmic isn’t going to be ready for a couple years yet, let’s try to fix your multimonitor issue. Are you running on Wayland and what’s your GPU?

      • @ikidd@lemmy.worldEnglish
        9•9 months ago

        I’m guessing that’s the onboard AMD graphics then?

        If you do an lspci -k | grep -EA3 'VGA|3D|Display' what does it return? Are you able to find anything in dmsg (journalctl -xb-1 for previous boot log) that would give an error message to investigate?

        • @ColdWater@lemmy.caOP
          8•9 months ago

          here is what I got 04:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Mendocino (rev c2) Subsystem: Lenovo Device 380e Kernel driver in use: amdgpu Kernel modules: amdgpu I don’t think I understand what I’m reading but here is all the error I could find: https://rentry.org/gni28ogy

          • @ikidd@lemmy.worldEnglish
            5•9 months ago

            Might have to get the full log, and it should be from immediately after one of those unexpected reboots. The flag b-1 indicates journalctl to export the logs from the previous boot (-1) instead of the current log. So if you do sudo journalctl -xb-1 > log.txt after one of these reboots and paste that file to look at, we might get something useful.

            I’m fairly confident that’s a problem that can be fixed with having an AMD graphics driver running. If it were nVidia, I’d be less confident.

  • @spacemanspiffy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7•9 months ago

    I feel like I am the only person not super-jazzed about Cosmic.

    If people are excited or want to use it, fine. But I don’t know what it could possibly add to the mix besides offering mote DE choice, and Linux already has a lot of that.

    • Random DentEnglish
      3•9 months ago

      I like it as an alternative to GNOME that’s not quite so GNOME-ish, if that makes sense. I do like GNOME but I find it a bit idiosyncratic sometimes, IE they seem very “my way or the highway” about some design things, and it often feels to me like you have to hunt down and keep updating endless plugins to do basic things that feel like they should be included.

      If they can land in a spot where COSMIC looks as nice as GNOME but is also a bit less of a hassle to get set up the way you want it, I feel like they could occupy a nice middle-ground between GNOME and KDE possibly.

    • @pathief@lemmy.world
      2•9 months ago

      I’m not really invested in Cosmic, I’m happy with Hyprland and will continue to use it.

      I do think they did a REALLY nice job with the tiling. I don’t think you can find a more intuitive and user friendly tiling window manager. Something that’s not absolute barebones out of box and can be configured entirely with a GUI. In that regard it does bring something to the mix and is very very welcome.

      • Random DentEnglish
        3•9 months ago

        I wish KDE had something like that! AFAIK I think most tiling things are still broken and haven’t quite caught up to Plasma 6 yet.

        • @pathief@lemmy.world
          2•9 months ago

          KDE has “”“tiling”“”. They called it tiling but it’s just god awful. If KDE had real automatic tiling, I would probably have sticked with it, to be honest.

  • @overload@sopuli.xyz
    5•9 months ago

    What is the big difference between Cosmic and Gnome? I know System76 are developing it so I would imagine they have a problem with Gnome and their hardware business.

    I used popOS! for a year and did get annoyed that Gnome required extensions that were not necessarily maintained in order to allow for what I considered to be basic customisation.

    On OpenSUSE Tumbleweed with KDE now, but interested to see what the philosophical difference is between Gnome and Cosmic.

  • Caveman
    2•9 months ago

    It sounds great. Cosmic is off to a great start and I can’t wait to see what they come up with next.

  • @D_Air1@lemmy.ml
    2•9 months ago

    I’m excited too and also use KDE. I’m not certain I will ever switch, but like other commenters. I am concerned with how long it may take before I consider it to be usable. Not to mention there are certain really cool features that KDE has that I would like to replicate over there before I even think of switching.

    • @ColdWater@lemmy.caOP
      1•9 months ago

      Yes that is what I did with Windblows, I’m tired of removing all the adwares they bundled every updates and for the final nail in the coffin they integrated copilot with it, I had enough with Windows so I just switched to Linux instead

      • @DaTingGoBrrr@lemmy.ml
        1•9 months ago

        Your plasma desktop crashing with dual screens is something that’s not normal. I use two monitors all the time and my desktop has never crashed.

          • @Zamundaaa@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
            1•9 months ago

            misconfigured

            Unless you did something really stupid and deleted system libraries or something like that, no configuration should cause crashes. Please make a bug report about it at bugs.kde.org. You might not be able to fix it yourself, but crashes are often relatively easy to diagnose and fix for a developer.