System76 Releases COSMIC Alpha 6 Desktop Environment (www.phoronix.com)

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[-] notanapple@lemm.ee 18 points 1 day ago

Its written in Rust, is a completely new code base so not held back by tech debt, and is a clean DE while still being fairly customizable even now.

I personally don't care why system76 felt the need to code a new DE from scratch, Im just glad they did it. It has given us a whole new ecosystem of GUI toolkits, apps, etc. for linux written in Rust.

this post was submitted on 21 Feb 2025

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