What are your thoughts on the upcoming COSMIC DE?
What are your thoughts on the upcoming COSMIC DE?
Basically title, with System76 moving from gnome to their new rust built COSMIC environment what are your thoughts?
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I welcome new and innovative DEs. I am tired of how some organizations handle things. I must however, acknowledge that with every additional major DE comes further fragmentation. COSMIC seems to really care and for that reason I am rooting for them. The negative effects, however, are always in the back of my mind.
Yeah same. I like the idea, the concept, and from their blog posts the execution. I just wonder if we will see an app community around rust/iced/slint or if we will be using other apps from other toolkits. (Which isn't a bad thing, but an ecosystem is good)
I don’t think DE really causes too much fragmentation.
Maybe I’m wrong, but I’ve never had something not run due to using cinnamon over kde.
Now, with flatpaks becoming more popular, programs should look the same across DEs. I know the design language will be different, but that’s basically how it is on Mac and windows already.
My perspective on fragmentation comes from that of a developer. It’s good that you’ve never had something not run due to DE choice, because we work hard to make sure that you can. It’s just hard to test all the different combinations and make sure they all work.
Thanks for the insight. I didn’t consider that.