I personally don't get the hype around Cosmic - I'm not clear what makes it so exciting for people? It seems to be a reaction to the restrictive design philosophy of Gnome but not moving too far from it at the moment. It'll be interesting to see how far it moves from Gnome and if moving to Rust is actually meaningful to the end user.

I can see it's good for the Linux world that a new and modern DE is being developed. It gives users choice and may prompt innovation in the other DEs too. But maybe I'm beyond the age where new is exciting - I value stable and familiar environment, KDE in my case.

I'm not against Cosmic in any sense - I just don't quite get the level of hype I see surrounding it. Maybe it'd be more exciting if I was a Gnome user? Maybe it's solving problems I don't seems to have in KDE?

[–] LeFantome@programming.dev 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Speaking for myself, this is why COSMIC is appealing:

nice middle-ground between oversimplified and over opinionated GNOME and KDE complexity
both floating and tiling are first class
Wayland native (no legacy)
pushing DE innovation
commercially backed
written in Rust
attractive
fast

I also love that it is driving Smithay and Iced which matures the foundations of other great projects like Niri and even RedoxOS.

[–] nekusoul@lemmy.nekusoul.de 1 points 1 month ago

It seems to be a reaction to the restrictive design philosophy of Gnome but not moving too far from it at the moment.

For me, that's indeed the main reason. I actually prefer their look and feel of Gnome, but absolutely loathe quite a few of their stubborn decisions, so I currently stick with KDE (which is also great). From what I've seen and tried, Cosmic seems to try and become a mix between those two.

That, and it's neat having a DE that offers both tiling and floating and treats them as equally important.

[–] stewarpt@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

I mean you see how many people use windows

[–] superglue@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Its in pretty good shape for a beta, and gaming seems way more stable on it versus their old version with gnome, but I'm still considering going back for now, there are just too many bugs as of now.

[–] BlackAura@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Is it beta now? I tried alpha 8 or alpha 9 and ran into a lot of issues (3 or 4 independent ones) with my multimonitor setup and eventually just gave up because of the frustration of having to reconfigure all 3 monitors every reboot.

Bazzite never had a problem, but locked down some dev stuff I wanted to do.

CachyOS has been solid but every once in a while I will experience one of the multi monitor issues I had on Cosmic Alpha. But I can live with that.