Wrapping up COSMIC’s main features before the first beta release.
  • LeFantome@programming.dev
    1·
    1 hour ago

    I used COSMIC for a while and really liked the core DE. Being able to easily move between stacking and tiling is great and the workspaces work well. The new multi-monitor stuff sounds good.

    I do not love the included apps. The terminal was ok but a bit of a memory pig. It is Alacrity based. All early days though and of course other apps work great with it, though with mixed UI.

    Early versions leaked memory but apparently that was related to a bug in Glibc that they have now worked around.

  • a14o@feddit.org
    5·
    12 hours ago

    I’m waiting for Cosmic to be merged into NixOS stable which I learned is just around the corner (May). I’m super excited because Cosmic seems to strike a sensible balance between polished, full-featured, make-everyone-happy mainstream DE and performance-oriented tiling WM.

    Although I’ve never tested the Alpha, I have a feeling that I might finally make the switch (from Gnome) on my daily driver once it’s mature enough.

    • circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org
      6·
      11 hours ago

      I’ve really liked it. I’ve gone back and forth between Cosmic and their old Pop Shell on Gnome. I find the tiling system on Cosmic to be much better, especially on a multi monitor setup.

      I also agree with another commenter that the file browser kind of sucks, but that’s a minor complaint right now.

    • dinckel@lemmy.world
      4·
      10 hours ago

      On Nix, trying it out is the easiest case scenario of all. Try out the community flake, and roll back if it isn’t up to your standards yet

      • a14o@feddit.org
        3·
        8 hours ago

        I understand it’s easy, but I don’t want to sully my omnipotent flake with a casual nixpkgs.follows = "nixos-cosmic/nixpkgs";. It’s probably fine, but I can wait.