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.
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
I understand it’s easy, but I don’t want to sully my omnipotent flake with a casual
nixpkgs.follows = "nixos-cosmic/nixpkgs";. It’s probably fine, but I can wait.
I used COSMIC for a while and really liked the core DE. Being able to easily move between stacking and tiling is great and the workspaces work well. The new multi-monitor stuff sounds good.
I do not love the included apps. The terminal was ok but a bit of a memory pig. It is Alacrity based. All early days though and of course other apps work great with it, though with mixed UI.
Early versions leaked memory but apparently that was related to a bug in Glibc that they have now worked around.