It’s an Ubuntu downstream maintained by Linux box maker System76 which is targeted for both general usability and design/media applications. They will soon be debuting their own home-spun desktop environment, Cosmic DE, which is highly anticipated by the Linux community.

How does the community here feel about this distribution and the company that has brought it to us? How do you feel about the projects that they’re working on, and their goals for the distribution moving forward?

  • @[email protected]
    -9•7 months ago

    It used to be one of if not the greatest entry point for new Linux users, nowadays they got too worked up on their beef with GNOME, are trying to do their own thing and it honestly looks kinda pathetic.

    • Michael Murphy (S76)English
      5•7 months ago

      If COSMIC is pathetic, then GNOME must be abysmally unusable. COSMIC was already planned long before there was any beef with GNOME. We listen to user feedback and prioritize development of features that our developers and users want. Good luck trying to replicate COSMIC’s theming and tiling capabilities in GNOME. Let alone the overall stability and performance of COSMIC. COSMIC Store is the fastest app store on Linux now. I’d recommend everyone to try it out. sudo apt install cosmic-store

      • @[email protected]
        -2•7 months ago

        My comment did sound way more aggressive than I intended, and I apologize for that, but getting this defensive as an answer when the question asked for an opinion definitely isn’t any less pathetic. I have a lot of respect on the work of the Pop team, and Pop was the first distro I have used, but none of your points are… good?

        • Gradience fills the need for theming in an individual level for those that want it without breaking the look and feel of apps without the developers’ intent at a distribution level;
        • Forge replicates most of Pop’s tiling capabilities, picking up the great work your team did over the years without intending to drop it for your own thing;
        • Performance is something that isn’t necessarily lacking in other DEs and stable is a bold statement for a product still in alpha. Hopefully it really is whenever it gets a stable release though, I’m not rooting against your work;
        • Also, it isn’t hard to say your app store is the fastest when it doesn’t have the years of crust other ones gathered from all the work put into it. I would get worried if it wasn’t.
        • Michael Murphy (S76)English
          2•7 months ago

          Speaking of being defensive, not only are you being far more defensive than I, but these bullet points are both misleading and wildly inaccurate. It’s also telling that you think none of my points are good, when they are the truth. Could you possibly be even more a hypocrite?

          • @[email protected]
            -1•7 months ago

            If they are so misleading and inaccurate, then I’m all ears to why.

            Again, I’m not against the project or the team, I just don’t like the direction S76 went for their own thing, instead of improving other existing projects. Having a full Rust stack is potentially pretty great though, and I’m all in for what it might become in the future, but this attitude about even the slightest of criticism speaks volumes about the people working on it.