Comments by "Gilad Barlev" (@GSBarlev) on "The Definitive COSMIC Desktop Alpha Review!" video.
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Been using COSMIC since Friday, and I've been positively giddy about it. Hearing your critiques, I clocked, "Oh yeah, I had that issue¹, oh for sure, that would be nice," but it didn't change my glowingly positive opinion. About halfway through, I realized why the cognitive dissonance—I don't love COSMIC despite the bugs, but because of them.
Since I grew out my neckbeard and actually started caring about my DE (ca 2020), everything I've used has been boring. Either:
- Boring because it just works (Budgie, Pantheon, sway), or
- Boring because it requires an hour of reading through config files and recommend extras (Hyprland, KDE)
COSMIC is the first DE I've used since, I wanna say, Mir that has felt exciting, partially because the learning curve is gentle (config through a generous, but not overwhelming number of GUIs; keyboard shortcuts and window management features I'm still discovering on my own; hybrid tiler with training wheels) and because things don't just work (mostly it's been Wayland issues with flatpaks), it's exciting, challenging and rewarding when I find a workaround or solution.
This is the "OG" Linux experience that got me hooked in 2006 with Dapper Drake—90% daily driveable with 10% charlie foxtrot—and I'm so delightfully surprised I get to experience it again.
¹Not the screen flickering though—AMD 6700XT here has been rock solid with dual display. Especially since OBS didn't capture it, are you sure you don't have to loose monitor cable?
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