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System76’s COSMIC Desktop Hits Initial Setup Completion (linuxiac.com)
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[–] 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Look during my distro hops I tried cosmic. I didn't get the allure. Maybe for a dead simple touch screen but it's too basic. The settings are basic, it lacks depth. I wasn't a fan of the gnome like interface I guess even if you take that out. The best feature was the tiling. Beyond that I just wasn't feeling the locked down UI and brain dead simple settings. KDE is too deep and has too many menus. Mint does it best. Little depth, little options, not enough to fuck things up too bad but still allow you to make it yours.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    UX is a subjective topic.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    This.

    I haven't tried Cosmic yet, but for me it's the opposite: I feel GNOME (and KDE) is needlessly complex / bloated. Give me a simple tiling window manager that's efficient, quick and always reliable. No real need for menus or fancy animated toolbar widgets, just snappy instant response to my keypresses.

    UX is as varied as people's tastes, and they also might evolve with the times.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    I agree, and COSMIC aims to reach Mint level and stay there. Settings have continuously improved (like everything else), and the main feature of COSMIC is tiling (regular people don't care about written-in-Rust or Wayland-only). I can't wait to see major settings/features appear with the next release, like Night Light. For now, I just want to see it stabilise fully and reach release.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago*

    Mint does it best

    I guess you mean Cinnamon, Linux Mint is the distro (and it also comes with MATE and XFCE variants).

    Cinnamon started as a fork of GNOME 3, for a while Linux Mint was shipping GNOME 3 + MGSE (Mint GNOME Shell Extensions).. GNOME is configurable through extensions, but due to frictions with the GNOME team it made more sense to fork.

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