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System76's Cosmic Desktop Working Toward Its Alpha Release

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See also our first four COSMIC applications with the default dark and light themes[0]: a terminal, file manager, text editor, and settings application. SavvyNik also demoed a slightly older build of these applications in a recent video today[1].

[0] https://fosstodon.org/@soller/111733526892594130

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfN9WjaRP3U

I suspect this is a better URL: https://blog.system76.com/post/cosmic-the-road-to-alpha

I love everything I've used from System76, but I'm confused about Cosmic insisting on using hybrid mode for graphics.

When developing / profiling GPU code, I'd prefer the freedom to keep the entire iGPU or dGPU to myself. I'm curious why they're forcing the issue.

I'm also curious if this will limit which external graphics ports can be used on some machines to show the desktop.

But why do they need another DE when Gnome and KDE can suffice botrh demographics and are vastly more mature and see more dev effort?

Conflict: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29170375

I'm in favor of a new DE being developed if they can bring it to maturity. The existing DEs may be good enough for most current users, but it seems that there's still something missing to work better for more casual users without relegating them to only running Chrome apps.

Aside from the technical issue mentioned in links, the ability to execute efficiently on a long-term vision needs autonomy which isn't compatible with working within a large established development group with their own directions. I personally still choose Xfce, but welcome to seeing what System76 comes up with and may switch down the road if it strikes a good balance between simplicity and capability available to power users.

They have done a pretty solid job with PopOS, so I am inclined to give them the benefit of the doubt.

those aren't written in rust!

I'm kind of sick this perspective on every single announcement of every single open source project.

Clearly the people developing it aren't happy enough with Gnome or KDE and want something different. What matters is not total amount of dev effort, but if what comes out of that is something you like or not.

Tribes.

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