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.
Yeah its my daily driver for a month. I think its great. I set all windows to tile and use hotkeys to switch between workspaces. No bugs from what I can tell.
It must be my hardware then, I had so many bugs I went back to the old version. Towards the end, my dock didn't work at all.
Nvidia?
Even though they have been getting better now.
I've only been using it for a couple of days but I'm very surprised how bug-free and feature-complete it is for a "Beta". Not that I have none.
I'll need to give tiling another try, I started using alpha 5 back in January and there were some pretty nasty bugs in tiling mode back then that made me think maybe a memory leak or something. After 15-20 minutes performance would get horrible until switching back to floating, though I'm fuzzy on the details.
Is there any capability to leave an open space? Honestly, I like tiling more for the orderliness above and beyond snapping than the dynamism. Aaaaaand that's reminding me why I was looking at building out a LabWC environment, it has configurable snap zones.
Yeah try it again now, I noticed how tiling seemed a bit laggy in the beginning but that has improved. I run the latest git version available in the arch repos.
Thanks, I'll have to sit my ass at my desk so I can try it again. I wonder if there's much delta between what you're using and the beta I'm on from Extra. Though it does look like there are some new betas in Extra-Testing.
Probably not that much. The beta is really new.
I was using a few of the alphas like a year ago and I enjoyed it. Then I didn't. seemed like with each new release it just got worse. slower, more bugs, etc.
Yesterday I decided to finally try the beta and...it's good. It's really good. I'm going to switch from Niri to it. I didn't have to change ANY keybind on it cause they were all just there by default. The tiling works great, love the ease of navigation between monitors. the hot key to tile or not is great. It's in a really good spot right now.
PopOS used to be my distro of choice as a de-crapified Ubuntu alternative until I realized I like the Cinnamon DE and Mint a lot better. Still exciting to finally see a 24.04 release!
Finally! I’ve been on Cosmic for months. Waiting for search results to be relevant again, rather than assume I use Gnome.
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