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.
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.
Does it fix window scaling if you have 2 monitors with different resolution settings?
Yet another DE?
