The source tweet from Carl Richell:

COSMIC and Pop 24.04 Beta will be released September 25th.

I’m looking forward to COSMIC reaching beta and then hopefully a stable release :)

  • uthredii@programming.dev
    14·
    10 months ago

    From what I remember they were using GNOME for pop os with some custom addons they had made (for example a tiling addon). GNOME updates will sometimes break addons and I think the pop os people got tired of this.

    I actually really liked the addon as it would help you have a workflow closer to a tiling window manager.

    So they are creating a DE with the features they think are important (tiling, performance, others) in mind from the start. I like the idea of this as I don’t want to commit to installing 100’s of tools for a tiling window manager like hyprland but I do want the benefits of tiling.

    Also it’s written in rust which implies performance and security.

    • littleomid@feddit.orgEnglish
      9·
      10 months ago

      Reply to you and the poster above: yeah, I remember that plugin. I liked it so much in fact that I switched to i3 (and have been on i3) ever since. Fair enough. That makes sense.

    • apostrofail@lemmy.world
      2·
      10 months ago
      • Pop!_OS*
      • 100s* of tools
      • in Rust* (note: doesn’t imply performance or security as incompetency isn’t language-specific)