Just received a notification about the new June update for System76’s own desktop environment: COSMIC DE. I was sceptical at first, but this seems pretty impressive. It might finally be the modern and user friendly i3/Sway that I’ve been dreaming of!
I haven’t been keeping up with the development of this but I really hope it ends up being good.
Judging from the frequency at which they publish blog posts about major features, development is going really well. I’m looking forward to trying it to see whether it’s actually as good as it seems (although it will probably still take quite some time until it’s mature enough to use productively).
When I first tried the tiling in Pop Os it broke certain apps for me and i ended up disabling it. I still turn on the tiling when i have a lot of things open, but it’s a specific use case for me.
Still it’s great to see any distro really try to innovate the UI. I am optimistic for how a full cosmic DE might turn out.
Then again I was one of the Unity DE supporters back in the days so my judgement may not be sound lol
Hey, unity did some really nice and unique stuff!
But I believe more in System76 than Ubuntu to make this work. They seem to have a genuine focus on ease of use and streamlining stuff. It’s also in their direct intrest as all there income comes from selling Linux pc’s to real users. With Ubuntu the desktop became more and more of an afterthought as they focused more on servers.
It did! I loved that DE. it was shortly before then than first installed Ubuntu and Unity just felt fresh and futuristic.
But I think it’s as you say - desktop is not the priority for Canonical. I’d add that because of their relative size they try and force their way onto the scene even if the consensus is the other way - see wayland and snaps.
still i after i made the rounds i settled on Pop Os and don’t see myself switching any time soon
I find I occasionally need to turn it off and back on, sometimes it starts tiling things weird.