Gonna be off topic but how the fuck is fedi getting more traction on this over reddit.
I guess all Foss degens are banned there too haha
the foss people are probably the people who migrated to the fedi first
Really loving the new changes! Can’t wait to see try the alpha out
Progress looks nice! Not a big fan of how the osd and tabs look, but everything else is quite nice
I think the osd looks good but yeah the tabs are kinda ugly tbh
To be fair I’ve never seen window tabs on a twm that look good
They would look better if they added padding and switch from border color to state based background color. But if they did that, they would have to rework their design system. Too much work. I bet they tackle that much farther into it’s life cycle.
They build a desktop toolkit which can be used for many others, with way different styles. Budgie thought about that but abandoned the idea afaik.
I feel like OSDs would look much better with some background transperancy which they added to the terminal couple days ago. So I would hope it gets added to OSDs soon as well
Will Debian users be able to use Cosmic’s tiling manager?
Eventually, yes. It may be faster available if you contribute on maintaining the packages, though.
How do I do that?
I’m relatively new to linux but I have some experience with Java and Python
Should be straight forward. If you willing to do all the work, the Debian community should be very welcoming
Packaging doesn’t usually require programming knowledge. Usually just a little bit of bash and reading the documentation.
They want to have a release by 24.04 LTS? that’s pretty ambitious
[…] we […] work towards an eventual 24.04 release over the summer.
If all goes well, we can release the alpha by the end of March.
I’m a little excited, not gonna lie. I really liked their take on Gnome.
I tried COSMIC just two weeks ago and it is incredibly buggy. Like, I crashed the whole desktop twice in 15 minutes.
My prediction is that they will build an amazing DE, and it will take way longer than they anticipated.
Its not even alpha yet, of course it’ll be buggy
sure! I’m not complaining, just saying that I predict it will take longer to complete than they anticipate
Does System76 have right now, or upcoming, any laptops that can match Apple’s hardware quality? They seem like Clevo rebrands.
They have been working on a fully in-house open source laptop for some time but I don’t know the ETA on it.
What’s wrong with clevo rebrands?
As far as I know, all the so called Linux laptops are rebranded white label products from China
Starlabs is not AFAIK, same with PINE
Hello fellow Keith
Hello
Starlabs laptops are great. I can’t wait to see a review of thestarfighters laptop!
I hear the battery life is poor but not sure.
I get ~8 hours on my starbook MkVI, with Bluetooth disabled.
They plan on starting to make their own laptops but there aren’t many details available. https://www.tomshardware.com/news/system76-shows-off-first-images-of-its-virgo-linux-laptop-design
apple’s hardware quality
I laughed. Cheaply made Chinese builds sold at a huge markup to make it look good to rich idiots doesn’t mean quality.
I’m sorry, but I absolutely cannot understand this. Have you held a modern macbook, like a macbook m2 air, in your hands?
I don’t like their software a lot, but the hardware is top of the industry in almost every way after they released their own CPUs. For what you get, they are cheap.
Before Apple Silicon they were more meh, though.
I’m very excited for COSMIC!
i tried recently compiling the epoch build on machine, but it didn’t start. maybe because of my nvidia card. nevertheless i’ll be installing this as soon as it hits the arch repos!
Yeah I had trouble building it on Arch. Something went wrong with a particular dependency, but I forget which. I’ll give it another try soon, since I’m incredibly eager to experience the newer changes.
Oh, an alpha version, not some revival of SPARC. I know RISC-V laptops are almost a thing, and MIPS is trying to make a comeback. It’s not beyond the realm of what’s possible.
Certainly it’s better than my initial read of System76 doing anything with COSMAC.
This is about the cosmic desktop environment, not a CPU architecture
