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COSMIC Alpha 7: Never Been Beta (blog.system76.com)
submitted 9 months ago by cm0002@lemmy.world to c/linux@programming.dev
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[–] a14o@feddit.org 8 points 9 months ago (3 children)

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.

[–] SatanClaus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I tried it out. Actually loved it. The UI is very modern and fresh feeling. I hated the file browser though. It was missing a lot of basic stuff s file browser should have iirc. Overall I'll probably heavily test it out once it's beta

[–] three@lemm.ee 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Can't you just install another file browser? Or is that linked to cosmic? I don't know, I'm new 🫃

[–] SatanClaus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yeah! They just had their own so I was trying to use it

[–] three@lemm.ee 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Oh I see, fair enough. Thanks.

[–] SatanClaus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 9 months ago

Yeah minor complaint overall the desktop felt nice and is worth using once more feature ready imo

[–] circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 9 months 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.