Looks like shit, flat surfaces everywhere everything a copy of a copy nothing original in here or a killer feature to stand out from the rest. A flatter copy of gnome it looks like. If they were going flat at least make the animations like the layering of Windows 10 which looks much better.
Every two years we get yet another remake of a desktop environment, reinventing the wheel, (and losing a bunch of features in the process,) but we cannot find an email client that does not stutter with some protocol or a fully-featured graphical text editor.
The top panel is terrible. It only wastes screen estate for no reason whatsoever. If they don't make it so that you can disable it and incorporate its functionality (all the stuff on the right side basically) into the "taskbar", Cosmic will unfortunately be a no-go for me, and then I guess switching to another distro will be my only option. π
This is a really polished-looking DE, but I don't think the macOS approach is quite right for me. When I tried Pop!_OS I wasn't a big fan of the top bar. My server had GNOME, so the top bar wasn't necessarily new to me. However, on my server I only have a DE running for short tasks like selective file drag-and-drop that are easier in GUI than a remote terminal. When I actually tried daily driving Pop!_OS, the top bar quickly started making the screen feel cluttered to me. The Cinnamon approach has been my favorite DE for the past few years. It WOULD be KDE Plasma, I like the look of it the best, but it's too unstable and full of bugs to actually use.
Nick thanks again for another great video – the wife and I are planning a trip to France in March and I will be sporting my Linux Experience shirt in Paris. You now have 20 new followers here in Leesburg, VA – based on our groups last drinking night out. Please keep going on the channel.
Cosmic is exciting for Linux – it is a future looking approach without the legacy dependency (e.g., X11 gone) — and it may accelerate application development and enhance the user experience. At least System 76 seems committed to the project.
Dude OMG your endorsements are str8 GARBAGE . Iβm about to unsubscribe man β¦. Why do you think good content with random ignorant claims and lying spyware software ads is a good idea !!!!!!???? This is very bad looking for a Linux content creator β¦.
I love the functionality of Cosmic. The way it can toggle between tiling and floating is especially cool. I just wish that it took more design cues for GNOME to have that extra layer of visual polish, if it did that maybe I'd install it
It's not really correct that this is the first wayland-only DE. Sway? Hyprland? Both of these have been around for quite some time, are very stable and is seeing a lot of use.
Very happy for the team. Great achievement and it's on its way to greatness. I personally can't daily drive it unless/until they allow searching/launching apps from workspaces view. Single entry (1 key) faster workflow that avoids cognitive fatigue is just a requirement for me. They have a stated goal to let people be able to work their own way so I'm hopeful they will add the ability to search via launcher upon typing when in workspace overview. Small change to let many many people work the way they're used to. KDE even implemented it.
The only thing important about Cosmic is it demonstrates yet again why Linux will continue to fail on the desktop – constant starting over and creating yet another desktop/toolkit/application instead of helping to finish and polish something existing.
Just think what could have happened to either KDE or Gnome if this much effort had been placed in fixing the issues System76 customers were having instead of starting from scratch yet again.
Re KDE – There are tiling extensions for KDE, but COSMIC is the first I've seen to do tiling with a lot of desktop support. Even actual tilers don't generally have that level of indication for the tiling placement or ease of setup. COSMIC looks to be shaping up nicely — I might test consider switching from my actual tiler if this keeps up.
15:29 It may be called "natural scrolling" but it feels very unnatural. It's the first thing I disable on any system that comes with it on by default. I guess I'm just old and never got used to the Apple way of scrolling.
Does Proton Drive have a Linux client yet? I don't think it does. So it's a bit of an odd sponsorship. Having said that, I do sue the whole Proton suite and love it.
Try out Proton Mail, the secure email that protects your privacy: https://proton.me/mail/TheLinuxEXP
Looks like shit, flat surfaces everywhere everything a copy of a copy nothing original in here or a killer feature to stand out from the rest. A flatter copy of gnome it looks like.
If they were going flat at least make the animations like the layering of Windows 10 which looks much better.
Every two years we get yet another remake of a desktop environment, reinventing the wheel, (and losing a bunch of features in the process,) but we cannot find an email client that does not stutter with some protocol or a fully-featured graphical text editor.
I remember Linux Desktops from early 2000s, so much better configuration available than what we have today.
The Alpha is out and it's a piece of shit.
I will make my own desktop, I hate everything that is out there, including cosmic.
Gnome is pronounced NOME
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Why is there a blue shadow on windows? Is that intended?
The top panel is terrible. It only wastes screen estate for no reason whatsoever. If they don't make it so that you can disable it and incorporate its functionality (all the stuff on the right side basically) into the "taskbar", Cosmic will unfortunately be a no-go for me, and then I guess switching to another distro will be my only option. π
Is the GUI of your personal computer in English or French?
This is a really polished-looking DE, but I don't think the macOS approach is quite right for me. When I tried Pop!_OS I wasn't a big fan of the top bar. My server had GNOME, so the top bar wasn't necessarily new to me. However, on my server I only have a DE running for short tasks like selective file drag-and-drop that are easier in GUI than a remote terminal. When I actually tried daily driving Pop!_OS, the top bar quickly started making the screen feel cluttered to me. The Cinnamon approach has been my favorite DE for the past few years. It WOULD be KDE Plasma, I like the look of it the best, but it's too unstable and full of bugs to actually use.
Thanks
Nick thanks again for another great video – the wife and I are planning a trip to France in March and I will be sporting my Linux Experience shirt in Paris. You now have 20 new followers here in Leesburg, VA – based on our groups last drinking night out. Please keep going on the channel.
Cosmic is exciting for Linux – it is a future looking approach without the legacy dependency (e.g., X11 gone) — and it may accelerate application development and enhance the user experience. At least System 76 seems committed to the project.
we need a new homer meme with "what the hell's a super key"
Just imagine… In 10 years, COSMIC users might look upon GNOME and Plasma users the same way people today look upon Windows 7 users.
I have to say, the previous versions of cosmic were terrible ugly, but this new one looks promising
Got ProtonVPN to watch the climbing in the Olympics!
Dude OMG your endorsements are str8 GARBAGE . Iβm about to unsubscribe man β¦. Why do you think good content with random ignorant claims and lying spyware software ads is a good idea !!!!!!???? This is very bad looking for a Linux content creator β¦.
In other words, the whole thing is still barebones AF.
Nick, youβre looking good my man.
I love the functionality of Cosmic. The way it can toggle between tiling and floating is especially cool. I just wish that it took more design cues for GNOME to have that extra layer of visual polish, if it did that maybe I'd install it
It's not really correct that this is the first wayland-only DE. Sway? Hyprland? Both of these have been around for quite some time, are very stable and is seeing a lot of use.
Kde Plasma + Gnome
Very happy for the team. Great achievement and it's on its way to greatness. I personally can't daily drive it unless/until they allow searching/launching apps from workspaces view. Single entry (1 key) faster workflow that avoids cognitive fatigue is just a requirement for me. They have a stated goal to let people be able to work their own way so I'm hopeful they will add the ability to search via launcher upon typing when in workspace overview. Small change to let many many people work the way they're used to. KDE even implemented it.
The only thing important about Cosmic is it demonstrates yet again why Linux will continue to fail on the desktop – constant starting over and creating yet another desktop/toolkit/application instead of helping to finish and polish something existing.
Just think what could have happened to either KDE or Gnome if this much effort had been placed in fixing the issues System76 customers were having instead of starting from scratch yet again.
I'm little bit disappointed to be honest. Couldn't see any major benefit over the GNOME
But it seems to be more responsive than gnome verson on low end processor like celeron
Didn't expect German southern accent
So how is this different than gnome? It's just a clone lot of wasted energy for no obvious benefits….
Re KDE – There are tiling extensions for KDE, but COSMIC is the first I've seen to do tiling with a lot of desktop support. Even actual tilers don't generally have that level of indication for the tiling placement or ease of setup.
COSMIC looks to be shaping up nicely — I might test consider switching from my actual tiler if this keeps up.
This is the first Nail in the coffin for GNOME. I have high hopes that System76 will finally put that awful project where it belongs.
15:29 It may be called "natural scrolling" but it feels very unnatural. It's the first thing I disable on any system that comes with it on by default.
I guess I'm just old and never got used to the Apple way of scrolling.
A global menu would be so much appreciated, really miss that since the Ubuntu Unity days
very excited for this, i tried cosmic gnome version but it was very unstable
If Cosmic has an option to remember a Window application size and position, I'd switch. Else Windows and/or MacOS forever.
Does Proton Drive have a Linux client yet? I don't think it does. So it's a bit of an odd sponsorship. Having said that, I do sue the whole Proton suite and love it.