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I think it's good they're making a new desktop environment, but I personally wouldn't want to be beta testing an environment on my new laptop.
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?
KDE has vastly improved in my view and is a really great option these days. That said…
It is huge, monolithic, and difficult to modularize.
It is complex.
It occasionally has runaway resource use (eg. Indexing).
I agree, KDE is actually pretty amazing these days. Bizarre that the Linux ecosystem is focused around Gnome when there's another option available that so much better.