One thing i've seen desktop Linux struggle with, or rather the kernel or some other subsystem/drivers, is mouse and trackpad handling.<p>On OSX (and possibly Windows although its been a long time), its soooooo silky smooth. But on multiple Linux distros i've used, including Pop and Ubuntu, it just doesn't feel right even after adjusting all sorts of settings.<p>This is one thing thats kept me from full time Linux DE usage :(<p>Edit: i'm using an Apple trackpad.
This is the first time in recent memory that a company's software has made me want to buy their hardware. They are doing such cool stuff with Pop_OS, figure my next laptop will be from System76.
The effort to write a DE in Rust (especially with iced) is impressive and will definitely improve Rust GUI efforts. I am surprised, however, the margins around buttons and layouts in the settings are uneven (eg. no margins around the "Wallpaper" title but large margins on the toggles on "Background fit" or "Slideshow"). Is this a beta thing, or how the UI is supposed to be designed?
I'm so stoked about a well supported tiling Wayland compositor! Now KDE/Gnome are the only secure options in a world where all others implement screen capture, virtual keyboard and virtual mouse interfaces without access restrictions (looking at you sway and all of wlroots)
These early results look very promising, it is really interesting to see the high quality and speed of iteration and they are tackling some hard problems such as High DPI right off the bat. Hoping to get to try this out soon
Although I am myself running PopOS LTS on my machine right now, for historical reasons, I see no value proposition compared to Debian 12. If their Cosmic DE does not handle scaling at least as good as KDE (which is alow bar) I won't use it.
> six total processes being managed by the notifications daemon using mere milliseconds of CPU resources<p>Six processes should not take milliseconds of anything, there's no reason displaying a few notifications should take this much CPU time.
Resizing looks very sluggish<p>I suspect they use Gnome Shell.. what a mistake if they do..<p><a href="https://hyprland.org/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://hyprland.org/</a> is where it's at
The current Pop_OS gnome shell components are called COSMIC, and COSMIC DE is an entirely new standalone Rust environment that is in development.<p>For the similarly confused.
From the point of view of desktop development, I don't see any value on it.<p>What are the frameworks for UI, audio, 3D, IPC, how they integrate with the remaining Linux distributions stack?<p>I bet they are yet something that isn't quite GNOME, KDE, XFCE,..., with its own little island of APIs, reducing its utility to yet another window manager in practice.<p>To make it easier to multitask between classical xterm and Electron apps.
That looks pretty good! I have a System76 laptop running PopOS somI will try it this weekend.<p>A little off topic, sorry, but I bought my System76 laptop about 5 years ago, and it is still a workhorse. Good but old i7 and 1080 GPU and software is up to date.
Interested in if the fractional scaling is using that new Wayland protocol that allows windows to render at the desired dpi directly, or if its the old Mac-style render-at-2×-then-shrink.
We are in the age of mobile computing and most consumer Linux news I've seen on HN is about DESKTOP environment. Nothing new or innovative, it's always yet another way to stare at the gaps of multiple tiled windows, in the middle of the screen. People use computers like this?
They’ve been talking about this for years I feel like. Are they committed to releasing it any time soon? The last Pop update was well over a year ago. Are they moving to a rolling distribution model once cosmic is completed? I recall System76 saying they’d do annual releases but again they haven’t delivered on that
For anyone who was confused: I'm from Colorado and I like astronomy so I was pretty excited to read about well... that.<p>This is about System76 which is also pretty cool but for people looking for Cosmic Skies of a Colorado July, please see the below links:<p>- <a href="https://csastro.org/events-calendar/event/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://csastro.org/events-calendar/event/</a><p>- <a href="https://www.denverpost.com/2022/01/03/2022-astronomy-meteor-showers-supermoons-solstice/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.denverpost.com/2022/01/03/2022-astronomy-meteor-...</a><p>- <a href="https://www.denverastro.org/das-events/event-calendar/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.denverastro.org/das-events/event-calendar/</a><p>- <a href="https://www.9news.com/video/tech/science/starlink-satellites-colorado/73-1c622ae4-cc3f-48ef-bbab-0b82bb245e72" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.9news.com/video/tech/science/starlink-satellites...</a>