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 :)
I still don’t understand what they’re trying to achieve with Cosmic that GNOME or KDE didn’t do.
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.
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.
- Pop!_OS*
- 100s* of tools
- in Rust* (note: doesn’t imply performance or security as incompetency isn’t language-specific)
For me, it’s mostly interesting because it brings automatic tiling to a desktop environment. System76 has previously implemented this as an extension for Gnome, but they haven’t been too happy with that approach.
I think would also be good for the Linux Desktop community to have more than 2 strong desktop environments. Hopefully this would incentivize app developers to account for more than just a singe DE.