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It really is a slippery slope. When does it end???

Given that you’re learning Rust, probably getting programming socks and a Blahaj, and then…

In-progress COSMIC apps: terminal, file manager, text editor, and settings (fosstodon.org)

COSMIC is a Wayland desktop environment for Linux that is written in Rust with Smithay and Iced. COSMIC applications are developed with the libcosmic platform toolkit, which is based on iced. They are cross-platform and supported on Windows, Mac, and Redox OS in addition to Linux....

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They are cross-platform and supported on Windows, Mac, and Redox OS in addition to Linux.

I never made this connection until now, but of course that makes sense… Very cool.

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They saw a qt and couldn’t help themselves.

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No new version will be released until Cosmic is ready.

Edit: I don’t intend to badmouth S76 here. I love PopOS, it’s the distro that made me a Linux fulltimer. Cosmic looks great so far. However the last major release of PopOS was in early 2022.

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Mint has released 3 versions based on Ubuntu Jammy, though.

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I guess it depends how one defines “update” versus “version”. Again, please don’t take what I’m saying as criticism of what you guys are doing, because PopOS is great — I just happen to have a personality better suited to rolling-release distros. Pop is what I usually recommend to first-time Linux users though.

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Stagnant was probably the wrong choice of word. Perhaps “stable” (in the Debian sense) would be more apt, and that isn’t for everybody. I think you will see a HUGE influx once Cosmic launches.

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Well, there must still be a reason that people are going to other distros… I don’t think Pop has any inherent problems (unlike Manjaro for example) so perhaps the average user (counting myself in there) simply considers those under-the-hood changes less appealing than new GUI stuff, especially when the demographic is gamers. Things like Cosmic’s improved tiling and the built-in theming support will be a major attraction, I think.

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Pop is stagnant while they work on Cosmic. I’m one of the people who left because of that.

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So it’s a computer that lets you remotely control another computer? Is the advantage over SSH or remote desktop etc that you can interact with stuff outside the OS, like in BIOS?

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I tried it years ago and it felt more like Quark to me (not a compliment) but should give it another chance. For the past several years I’ve been using Affinity Publisher in a Windows VM.

Edit: just tried it out a bit (ver. 1.5.8 because that’s what’s in the Arch repo) and it’s better than I remembered. Adobe-like shortcuts. I made a new document and created a few text styles.

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That’s awesome, congrats. It’s like a form of immortality, having something of yours in the Linux kernel.

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Legend has it that the Elders knew of a world outside Vim, a world that encompasses it and all other things. That arcana is now lost, and none can transcend our plane of existence. Vim is all we know.

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Joke’s on you, I have transcended using ls because I have my entire folder structure memorized.

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what if I wanted to laugh at a funny Linux meme, but see a whingefest with a screenshot of a terminal

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Me when I have to compile something myself: :(

Me when I install something from the AUR: yay

Edit: I don’t use Chaotic AUR though. I’m more lawful neutral.

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Some of us have to accommodate clients and don’t get to decide.

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Interesting, the Flatpak is laggy for me.

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It works perfectly there! Thanks for this — it confirms the issue is with the standalone app (and Flatpak).

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Is this salt because they’re dropping X11?

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I don’t know why they like big docks so much. My dock is small and I’ve never had any complaints.

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