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  • Jarmer
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    Originally posted by Svyatko View Post
    COSMIC Desktop Environment is available for openSUSE:

    https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:COSMIC
    I'm on Tumbleweed so this was interesting to me! However, that link's a bit confusing. Maybe I'm just reading it wrong. At the end of that page it says "Leap 15.6 and newer are supported." -- So I guess no tumbleweed? But then if you click the link that takes you to the patterns page, it says "There is no official package available for openSUSE Leap 15.6" -- LOL which contradicts the former page but then below it mentions packages for both Tumbleweed and Leap. So at this point I have zero clue. Oh well, I'll just wait!

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  • discocat
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    Really eager to see Cosmic reach its first stable release.

    I'd love to have the option to manage workspaces like I usually do in sway rather than how it works for now in that alpha... but that may be an option added in the future.

    Very promising already, though.

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  • Anux
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    Originally posted by uid313 View Post
    It would be great if COSMIC got packaged for Debian and Ubuntu too.
    Since POP OS is based on Ubuntu I would bet there is already an PPA available somewhere.

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  • fong38
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    Also available for NixOS if you use this flake

    Flake for using COSMIC on NixOS. Contribute to lilyinstarlight/nixos-cosmic development by creating an account on GitHub.

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  • Quackdoc
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    Seems like cosmic is in T2SDE as well now https://t2sde.org/packages/cosmic-session maybe ill give it a try again on my laptop.

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  • Svyatko
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    COSMIC Desktop Environment is available for openSUSE:

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  • sophisticles
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    As I said before, I expect COSMIC to eventually become the default DE for most major distributions, and I would not be surprised to see a fork that features COSMIC redesigned to mimic KDE, perhaps KOSMIC.

    BTW, KOSMIC dot com and dot org are already taken.

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  • skeevy420
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    Originally posted by loganj View Post
    is Cosmic build on top of gnome? or is independent of gnome?
    Independent. Cosmic used to be a very in-depth GNOME plugin, but after a few years of the GNOME devs not accepting their pull requests and continuously doing things that made life harder for System76 devs, the folks at System76 decided to build a desktop environment from the ground up.

    Cosmic is basically the result of FAFO. The GNOME and RHEL folks are very set in their ways and don't always play nicely with others. They have a "My way or the highway" mindset. Most projects and organizations end up following their lead.

    Most.

    Most projects and organizations don't sell hardware with graphical interfaces. Cosmic via System76 does. Unlike RHEL who sells services geared towards system administrators, System76 sells services and hardware geared towards consumers. RHEL needs an interface that's designed to log into other interfaces and be used primarily by system administrators and power users. GNOME does that very well. System76 has a greater need to innovate the desktop and how the system itself is used because they sell laptops and desktops used by regular people. Only time will tell if Cosmic does that well.

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  • usta
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    Originally posted by loganj View Post
    is Cosmic build on top of gnome? or is independent of gnome?
    Yes and no System76 stated it will be creating a new desktop environment not based on GNOME. This desktop environment will be written in Rust and developed to be similar to GNOME. Even in description of PopOs they say until the independent COSMIC environment is finished, legacy COSMIC desktop, which is a heavily customized GNOME

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  • pWe00Iri3e7Z9lHOX2Qx
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    Supposedly there is a Fedora spin coming for F42. It will be fascinating to watch how well that is received.

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