Although this is great news I’ve often seen System76 devs say “It will be ready when it’s ready” when speaking on any past release. I’m happy to be patient and wait for whatever they release as long as it’s done right. And I’ve come to trust them to go above and beyond expectations.
Leave…Taylor…ALONE! :p
Yeah, I know Purism gets trashed for reasons they are actually accountable for. And good point about lack of business being a major worry, but in your search did you happen to see anyone trashing these other companies with “It’s just a rebranded [whatever]”?
Good points on clarifying the source of the criticism and the challenges this company face. We still need to explain why so many people trash System76 with this particular garbage. Other small suppliers face the same challenges, and we don’t see this “just a rebranded …” rant applied to them. Some examples would be Purism, Tuxedo and Star Labs. Why aren’t people trashing these companies with the same rhetoric? If anything they do much less to the ODM machine than System76.
You’re correct in pointing out that whatever hardware you buy usually mandates an ecosystem to work within. It took me a long time to completely sever with the Apple ecosystem. Their ‘planned obsolescence’ model and ‘walled garden’ experience are really expensive when you consider the entire deal. Forcing people to retire perfectly good hardware by manipulating software with the solution being to purchase more of their hardware is insidious. Microsoft aren’t much better these days, but their ecosystem has many other expensive features faults.
All good points, and thanks for the company info and clarifications. Apologies, I didn’t know about system76 community on lemmy.world instance.
From what I’ve read, yeah, Acer/Asus used to be the exception.
Not looking for anything except an attempt to clarify the industry standard practice that System76 are not doing anything different to ALL other computer suppliers (OEM). They’re all using ODM for manufacture. If the quality isn’t great that’s another topic, but trashing them in threads for the reason stated is ignorant and uninformed.
OK, sure, whatever, but that’s not relevant to the topic.
I think you guys are doing a tremendous job and COSMIC will be a breath of fresh air. One thing I’d be keen to see in editor is a “Meld-like” diff tool.
Now, this looks interesting! A terminal emulator based on Alacritty and an editor in Rust on COSMIC - I can’t wait. Literally, I’m going to play with it right now.
So yeah, I’ve heard it was a good movie too. Like, totally an Oscar worthy performance for sure! ;)
We`re never going to escape it, but I hope it’s not as prevalent as it is on Facebook and twitter etc. Last time I heard anything about the topic regarding those platforms it was some surprisingly unimaginable number of corporate accounts. Like 75%. What I mean by that is people being hired by corporations to join social media platforms and pretend to be legit users interacting with others while pushing agendas, attending to damage control or recommending product.
I totally agree with the title’s sentiment. I don’t mind some free open source rough edges. Lemmy functions great. There’s also a good deal of what looks like genuine interaction. However, I would like to point out that I think there’s a LOT of corporate shills pushing agendas. Some notable ones might be pharmaceutical propaganda and corporate banking with cashless solutions.
I understand the tiling features in COSMIC will be much more comprehensive than could be expected of the GNOME extension. I’m anticipating everything you said and more. It’s working fine now in COSMIC DE already and has as much functionality as the extension has already.
COSMIC DE now runs on Asahi Linux, while cosmic-settings and cosmic-icons have been added to NixOS!
This news is awesome! With Slint, Iced and all the many projects working on Rust apps for COSMIC, and now having other distributions on board gives a lot of confidence in the quality of this desktop.
Not saying good, bad, right or wrong - We need to understand what this all means. Here’s a good start. https://brettscott.substack.com/p/casino-chip-cashless-society
It’s totally usable for me. A little CLI and some scripts do what isn’t finished yet in GUIs. If you want the absolute latest COSMIC packages use
apt-managetoaddthepopdev-masterrepo. It’s only a VM so you shouldn’t be worried about breakage.