Comments by "Gilad Barlev" (@GSBarlev) on "The Definitive COSMIC Desktop Alpha Review!" video.

Funnily enough, of my first full system lockups on COSMIC was because of a memory leak... in IntelliJ from trying to open three projects at once. 😂 All the Rust in the world can't save Java from Java.
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Without the hybrid tiling I probably wouldn't bother with COSMIC and would have continued to wait for elementaryOS 8. But whereas I never could get the hang of Hyprland on the desktop (it's OP on the Steam Deck), COSMIC's UX is really easy to pick up.
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@burkino7046 Yeah, the lack of any power management was a surprise, but given that my other DE doesn't even have a working lock screen, COSMIC is actually an improvement for me in this regard. 😄
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 @that_leaflet Which makes it doubly odd, because when I installed COSMIC on Friday (also on Arch), single-window was the only option.
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I was confused about this—don't have the issue on my vertical display—until I remembered that it's actually a horizontal panel that I turned 90°. Which is probably why System76 didn't catch this bug themselves, because native portrait displays are still very rare outside of handhelds.
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lol, I had to log into GNOME in order to set up GDM (only DM I've tried that works with both COSMIC and Pantheon), and my immediate reaction was, "God! People use this? Willingly???"
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@jdecicco91 Yeah, it's all shortcut based. And since the Steam Deck has roughly seven thousand buttons, it allows you to bind each action to a specific input.
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28:05 Weird—OBS Flatpak this morning gave me the option of full-screen or single-window. I recorded single-window with zero problems.
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@anonymouscommentator I don't have a satisfactory answer. All I can definitively say is: - I opened three projects I have open concurrently all the time - Responsiveness suddenly ground to a halt, and I got some sort of "low memory" / "out of memory" warning from the IDE (Xmx, btw, is set to 2GB by default—my system has 128GB in total) - Before I could close some windows or kill IntelliJ altogether, COSMIC completely locked up - I tried again a few days (and a few software updates) later, after radding JetBrains' new experimental Wayland support flag to the VM options (and raising Xmx to 4GB), and everything worked fine.
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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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