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First Pop!_OS 24.04 Alpha with COSMIC DE Drops on August 8 - OMG! Ubuntu

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Pop!_OS 24.04 Alpha Release Coming on August 8th

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What I am most excited for in COSMIC is the promise of tiling in a full DE. I like the idea that you can switch back and forth.
I started trying it out a month or so ago. Still pretty incomplete. Promising though.
The fact that it may drive the Rust GUI ecosystem forward is exciting as well. I do not need to see everything re-written in Rust but it will be great if Rust is a realistic option for new app dev.
- Tiling
  It's actually really good. I've been running the prealpha at times, and I've had no issues with tiling.
  I'm missing 2 things from a real tiler: sloppy focus (WIP), and static workspaces.
- Exactly this! Powerful tiling without the need to build your own DE from scratch sounds incredible!
- I guess I will try it out then.. Is it in conflict with plasma-meta?
I run it on many of my devices, but I am absolutely waiting this one out to see just how useful it is, what's missing, what's not, and until it's ready to be a daily driver. Very exciting.
So what sets COSMIC apart from the rest of the gang?
- Wayland only, built upon only new code, pure rust as much as possible, native tiling, very fast apps
- Full desktop environment with decent window tiling.
You can’t announce a “drop.” It just drops.
- They just did. What are you gonna do about it?
  
  To be technical, it's not a drop if it's announced. Then it's just a "release". 😆
  
  they meaning omgubuntu said drop.
- My single My Single Is Dropping is dropping
I am curious when they will release it as a full GNOME replacement, because that is a crazy task. At the current state, COSMIC is not ready at all. Even though it is already awesome.
Does it fix window scaling if you have 2 monitors with different resolution settings?
- More importantly to me, can blind users even install the OS.
  All current mainstream distros now use Wayland, which has broken screen reading, so the OS cannot be installed.
  
  Fuck. That is way more important.
How far is it to be daily drivable, in your opinion? Like, crazy far or just far?
- I have a few machines running Pop. It’s exceptionally good IMO. It’s like an extremely refined Ubuntu. It’s one of my fav distros.
  
  Is that your experience with the OS or cosmic?
  
  Yes, I agree. Pop!_OS gets a lot of hate for some reason, but it's actually a really, really good distro.
  I was asking about COSMIC though, since I'm really looking forward to try it!
Yet another DE?

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