Basically title, with System76 moving from gnome to their new rust built COSMIC environment what are your thoughts?

  • ForbiddenRoot
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    1 year ago

    Personally, I would have preferred if they would have embraced KDE instead and dedicated resources to improve KDE even further. KDE is pretty darn good already, especially over the last year or so with all the bugfixes and feature improvements.

    In any case I am happy System76 is moving away from Gnome at least, and coming up with a full-featured DE of their own rather than having to maintain hacky extensions on top of Gnome to make it usable. As a bonus, the Iced toolkit should see improvements and perhaps become the goto toolkit for Rust GUI development.

    • git@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      I feel like you are overestimating how much System76 would be able to contribute to KDE. Because they have been almost Rust exclusive company for some years. All of their Tools are written in Rust and their engineers clearly likes working with it. So them contributing in an new area which needs the help and is in their expertise is better imo