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COSMIC DE: The Road to Alpha (blog.system76.com)

submitted 10 months ago by ericjmorey to c/linux

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If all goes well, we can release the alpha by the end of March

Now Available on NixOS!

COSMIC Terminal joins a long list of COSMIC DE projects that have been packaged for NixOS! While COSMIC DE will be the flagship desktop for Pop!_OS, it's designed and architected for distros to build their own custom, branded user experiences. Details for distro packaging will be released at the same time as the alpha.

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[–] somegeek 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Sometimes if feel like they are wasting their time and effort on things like terminal, text editor, etc. We dont need those in a DE. There are already some amazing terminals and text editors and such. They should focus most of their time on DE stuff like the window manager, dock,settings, etc. And create a great minimal DE with great functionality.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

It wouldn't be possible for us to build a platform toolkit, or the COSMIC platform itself, without a text editor or terminal. It would also be deeply embarrassing if we release our desktop without them. Imagine telling people they need to switch to a TTY or use a software center to install a plain text editor or terminal. It is thanks to the text editor project that we have first class text rendering across the Rust GUI ecosystem now. Without it, we wouldn't have been achieve proper bidrectional text rendering or ligatures. The text editor project also made the terminal possible, and now any application that we develop in the future can have proper text editing widgets and embedded terminals.

[–] ericjmorey 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yeah. I get that line of thought. But what they're making looks solid and has a coherence that feels appropriate for a branded distribution. I probably wouldn't make the same decisions but everything Pop!_OS feels like it's moving in the right direction.

[–] somegeek 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I don't think it will be worth it for them in the long run and will result in a loss of quality.

[–] ericjmorey 2 points 10 months ago

That's valid. I'm more optimistic about it.