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Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS & COSMIC Desktop Aim For December Stable Release
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Haven't been hearing much about Cosmic after the first releases. Anyone using it?
Daily driving it. B+ for a beta. I love tiling, and this one doesn’t require config hell to keep up. Very performant, and very feature light, for now.
I tried the beta for a while after it dropped. I liked it, but kept running into frustrating UI bugs. My favorite feature was the way you can seamlessly switch between floating and tiling modes. I’ll give it another try when it reaches release, because I am very excited by the direction it’s heading. It just needs polish.
I use it as my default DE on my non HDR laptop. I won't use it on my other devices until it supports HDR, but once it does, I'll likely move to it full time
What did you use before?
And if it's KDE, could you do a quick comparison between the two? What features make you want to switch?
I love KDE and have it dialed in exactly how I like it. I was able to get 90% of the way there with the Cosmic beta, which is good enough. The way you can toggle between tiling and floating is incredible. If I hadn’t kept running into frustrating GUI bugs I would have stuck with it.
One other little thing that bothered me was the file manager GUI. KDE Dolphin is hard to beat, and Cosmic’s default is beyond bare-bones in comparison. If S76 keeps investing in Cosmic it could be the best DE by a mile within another year or two.
Honestly, it's the tiling
I've been testing out the beta for the past several weeks and there are some small-ish bugs i've experienced. Decent overall though!
I am still on the last alpha, it is good, no problems so far.