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KDE Developer talks about whats good and bad from System76's Cosmic DE (thelibre.news)
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Crossposted from https://lemmy.world/post/52814919

From: https://www.osnews.com/story/146080/kde-developer-takes-a-look-at-cosmic/

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[–] [S] 8 points 1 month ago (3 children)

…so you came straight to the comments based off the headline?

It’s a great article that basically spends the entire time praising Cosmic for all the great things it’s doing. It does contrast Cosmic with KDE because it’s written by a dev who did things like the frosted glass feature and built a bunch of popular themes for KDE, but they really sell you on Cosmic. After reading it I’m considering giving it a second try, and I’m on KDE currently.

Seriously, go read the article. It’s solid.

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  • [+] -7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Not my fault if the title lies and there's actually nothing bad about Cosmic, but that's not my point. My point is before talking bad about others, take a look at yourself.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

    Real developers always compare themselves with competitors. It's standard operating practice...

    Our company does it all the time.

    And, we always love hearing feedback about our faults too (particularly from technical people), as it allows us to identify and improve.

    That being said, I'm not sure if you've actually read the article, because, they're not really talking bad at all.. It's super positive.

    And, I'd even argue its BETTER than positive considering that KDE was founded in 1996, and Cosmic only started development in 2021. Most projects struggle to get off the ground (thats 90% of the effort), and to have other competitors praise you for so many things, after such a short time, I'd LOVE to be on the receiving end. Even if we disagree.

    When I started a major project in 2003 which went frontpage in a lot of news sites quickly, I loved to get technical opinions. If I hadn't of been bullied so badly by (the then) toxic part of the linux community at the time, I would have continued with it. The good news is that projects like Ubuntu adapted something similar to what I was developing, so it wasn't a waste.

    Fortunately, the community has massively changed, and its a lot more positive these days (except for a small number of people calling everything slop).

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