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System76’s Oryx Pro Is the First Linux Laptop to Ship with the COSMIC Desktop (9to5linux.com)
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[–] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

The choice to ship with a beta version of the new DE is interesting. Is it that stable now and will there be a clear upgrade path to the final release?

I'm tempted to grab the beta myself and just go for it now...

Edit: fuck it, I just upgraded my install. Not like I do much important on my computer anyways. This is really nice, almost no pain from the upgrade and other than a couple of menus staying open when I click off of them it's been running just fine. Now to abuse it...

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago*

    For System76, the choice is to keep shipping their now very long in the tooth previous version or a beta of their new one. I have no doubt the beta is the better experience.

    And they are obviously stabilizing the beta rapidly now.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    No it is not lol

    I have no idea of the experiences of new users. The biggest issue is that PopOS has no KDE Plasma spin, so users can either use GNOME or their thing

    I will give the desktop another try. Their apps are all very minimal. Cosmic files has network shares though which is nice!

    I installed it in a VM to get the repo files as I found no better way. Now I use some cosmic apps on Debian GNOME

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