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COSMIC Alpha 7: Never Been Beta (blog.system76.com)
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[–] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I'm waiting for Cosmic to be merged into NixOS stable which I learned is just around the corner (May). I'm super excited because Cosmic seems to strike a sensible balance between polished, full-featured, make-everyone-happy mainstream DE and performance-oriented tiling WM.

Although I've never tested the Alpha, I have a feeling that I might finally make the switch (from Gnome) on my daily driver once it's mature enough.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I tried it out. Actually loved it. The UI is very modern and fresh feeling. I hated the file browser though. It was missing a lot of basic stuff s file browser should have iirc. Overall I'll probably heavily test it out once it's beta

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    Can't you just install another file browser? Or is that linked to cosmic? I don't know, I'm new 🫃

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    Yeah! They just had their own so I was trying to use it

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    I've really liked it. I've gone back and forth between Cosmic and their old Pop Shell on Gnome. I find the tiling system on Cosmic to be much better, especially on a multi monitor setup.

    I also agree with another commenter that the file browser kind of sucks, but that's a minor complaint right now.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    On Nix, trying it out is the easiest case scenario of all. Try out the community flake, and roll back if it isn’t up to your standards yet

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