More options is more good. The beauty of the open source community is different offerings of the same product catgory directly benefit each other instead of competing. Looking forward to running Cosmic system apps on KDE.
There’s a point where we have too many options and the space becomes too fragmented and inconsistent because everyone is doing their own thing instead of improving what others made.
I don’t think we reached that with DEs, but if they don’t maintain this one then it’s kind of going to just be a waste of time and resources that could’ve been spent improving a different one.
Time will tell. DEs are massive undertakings and they have a lot of catch up to do.
Honestly, I’ve given up on Pop OS and cosmic. System76 clearly overestimated their abilities with the decision to develop their own desktop environment. As a result they have been in development limbo for cosmic for multiple years now and at the same time have abandoned their existing distro and its users. Pop OS is still based on Ubuntu 22.04 with no official upgrade path.
That makes a lot of sense.
I personally don’t like any kind of big moves in the free software space at this point. Anything that stands the test of time does so because it has the community backing it.
Whenever we put our faith into a company to do the work for us, it always ends up being really expensive and mediocre.
Don’t be fooled into thinking the rules of business stop applying when dealing with a Linux company.
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would’vewouldn’t frame this as the distro is unusable and abandoned.I’ve been on PopOS for 3 years and haven’t had a single issue even with gaming.
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Thank you, swipe to text got me there lol
Sweet. I have really high hopes for cosmic and system76 for making inroads with mainstream users someday. Cosmic is way more stable compared to a year ago. It will probably be good enough for 26.04
I have been using the Alpha for almost 6 months. Overall it has been a very positive experience. Even in Alpha, it worked better out of the box on my laptop than Fedora and Bazzite. Especially the printer support and multi-monitor support.
Unfortunately, System76 hasn’t shared any specific details or an official timeline yet. But don’t worry—we’ll be among the first to let you know as soon as there’s news, so keep an eye out for updates.
It’s better not to have a definite timeline and to release it when it’s ready. First impressions are key because this will be System76’s main distro for their computers.
this will be System76’s main distro for their computers.
Just to clarify, COSMIC is a DE, not a distro. PopOS is their distro.
I’m talking about the fact that Cosmic will be PopOS default DE.
eh I’m going to take a wait and see approach.
The early alpha versions of COSMIC I really liked but over time with each new Alpha release it just felt…off? like kinda leaning into GNOME “please don’t actually customize me” territory? and there were a couple keybinds that just weren’t there. also it felt like it was getting slower with each release.
That being said I think if you just want a very simple DE with the option of good tiling then COSMIC is the way to go. It’s been awhile since I tried one of the previous alphas so if his release really is the shit then I might consider switching my WM to it.
This puts into words the nameless feeling I had while using it. If OpenSUSE eliminates support for x11 before XFCE’s Wayland is 100%, I might still use it full time, though.
The tiling feature is killer, I really wish KDE had something imilar that can be easily toggled on and off.
Krohnkite?
Tried it - it works, but isn’t toggleable like the PopOS tiling which has a taskbar button and a hotkey.
