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[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

PopOS is already my daily driver. I’m really excited to see System76 put the effort into Cosmic DE.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Nice, a full de with dynamic tiling capabilities sounds really fun

[–] [email protected] 23 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Is this the year of Linux ?

👉👈

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Linux already won years ago. Linux won so thoroughly that Windows 10 includes a Linux subsystem, almost every supercomputer runs Linux or BSD, and the majority of all mobile devices use the Linux kernel.

Not too bad for a bunch of nerds sharing code. :)

[–] [email protected] 20 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Rust

🦀

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Is there any plan to have something similar to the Gnome Circle apps for Cosmic? It'd be nice to encourage building a full ecosystem of app with libcosmic that can rival the apps of KDE/Gnome.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago

That's already happening

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago
[–] [email protected] 26 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I hope there'll be an official, well-supported Fedora COSMIC spin once it matures a bit more.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago

There was already talk of at at least, so likely!

[–] [email protected] 18 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Quite excited with cosmic! Seeing more competition in the DE space is always fun!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

I'd rather see more cooperation, but that's just me.