These Linux computers are always scams.
We get worse hardware for higher prices, and they don't even have to pay for the OS.
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just updated to it in opensuse and it's pretty solid, but wifi doesn't work for some reason. it can see the networks but it never connects
One thing that I love about Cosmic is that it is made in Rust and is licensed under GPL. This is contrast to the replacement of the coreutils with new, Rust made, which are unfortunately licensed under MIT. Ubuntu rushed to adopt them. One more case of foul play by them after making the server side of snap proprietary.
Why do everyone emphasize the fact that it is Rust based? What difference does it make? Personally, I don't care whether it's written in Rust, Cobol or Brainfuck. Badly written software would be buggy no matter the language.
Modern language that address a lot of common security vulnerabilities related to RAM and CPU usage leaking?
I am an idiot though somebody should explain this better
rust people really like rust
it's a little weird, but whatever makes them happy
Its like locks on a car, sure someone can still break the windows - and if still worried you should just use an armoured car.
But for most of us locks are more than enough to keep people out our shit
It's a lot more stable than September. I switched permanent to it in February and it's solid. The only reason I'd consider system76 hardware in support of cosmic development
The only reason I'd consider system76 hardware in support of cosmic development
Same tbh
Their Linux work is the best mother fucking marketing out there.
Instead of wasting money on corporate trash like sundar and faceberg, they spent cash money on open source modern DE.
Oh they finally fixed the bloody dock. I used it ages ago when it was still oval and those square icons looked terrible on it. This is much better.
Have they given any updates on HDR support? I remember them mentioning years back that they planned it for the final release but I've not heard anything since.
This is great but it would have to be pretty terrific to get me to replace Plasma.
It's shaping up to be pretty good at least. It's pretty good for being in alpha state still.
The main thing it needs to beat for me is Kwin's excellent Wayland support. Everything just works.
The per-screen workspaces are appealing though.
For me it's pretty likely to replace it, at least on my laptop. Don't get me wrong, I love Plasma, but per-screen workspaces and native window tiling are two features I never knew how much I needed before I tried out Hyprland some months back, especially on a single screen. While I'll definitely miss the desktop panels and extensive settings menu, I'll give those up for the other features without much of a second thought.
Wonder if I will stay on cinnamon after cosmic comes out in a stable phase
Lets gooo, I have wanted something to replace hyprland for me for a long time. Once they add customizable hotkeys and polish it up I can absolutely see myself daily driving it.
I wonder if I will stay on sway after cosmic releases
I desperately want a smithay based hyprland clone... hyprland is just so unbelievably good, shame about the dev.
What makes hyprland so good? It just seems like another WM to me, but maybe I don't get the interesting parts of it.
The developer is just kind of insane. They reimplemented wlroots from scratch all on their own, a feat that cannot be understated, and the reason they did that is because of how massively they were outpacing wlroots development in terms of features.
just some things:
- a full proper animation stack for eyecandy
- single window capture (sway still doesn't have this)
- keypress forwarding to specific windows (like xdotool)
- global hotkey support
- insanely good documentation: https://wiki.hyprland.org/
- color management and HDR (sway is just now getting this)
- proper permission management for screencopy (coming in the newest version, first compositor to implement)
- a full plugin system for extra things you want to do
- a proper app not responding dialog
If the feature exists, hyprland has it, almost guaranteed, they are not minimalists, which I appreciate right now while wayland is still getting everything sorted out. It's also the only compositor i've used that mostly works with a certain dumb app i uses clipboard.
And just check out the rate of changes:
https://github.com/hyprwm/Hyprland/pulse/monthly
vaxry is crazy.
I'm using Hyprland for a long time now and somehow I completely missed the global hotkey support. Thanks!
Interesting. May need to check it out, but I pmuch only use Gnome or KDE. I hate having to configure the extra parts in a WM (widgets for bluetooth, wifi, etc...).
Not sure I could stop using a tiling window manager now
Cosmic supposedly does tiling pretty well. Haven't tried it yet, but it might be the one new thing I'll try since going all in on i3 / sway a long time ago...
Coming together nicely!