Having tried Cosmic, I’m not totally convinced it’s good enough to be ready for prime time, but that’s pretty subjective. Overall I think it’s good to have another DE in the scene and at the very least Cosmic is a good start.
I find it pretty solid if a bit bare bones. With the basics in place, it should improve fairly quickly.
They are planning a 26.04 LTS release. We will see what it looks like by then.
I have been using it as a daily driver since before it went beta. After the beta, I have found it quite stable. And recently it have been rock solid. There are still some things missing (like it would be nice with a calendar app, support for firmware upgrades and so on), and some things that are a bit rough. But overall I find it to be a quite good release, and since nothing comes close to their window management (the tiling implementation is really great) it compensates for any minor rough edges you might find.
I disagree. I think it’s very mature. I didn’t experience any problems over the course of a few months, and that was with the Beta.
Last I had it on my desktop was like 2 months ago. Oddities with games here and there was a deal breaker for me. Don’t remember if I could alt tab over video game windows yet. Not being able to alt-tab other windows over a video game is a deal breaker for me. There were random nich applications I don’t recall that didn’t handle dialog windows/file pickers well. That may be better by now. The file explorer is really bare bones even compared to nautilus. Not expecting Dolphin but I want something better.
High hopes though. I may give it another go as my primary with 26.04. The Cosmic applications are all pretty fast. I think I like how it looks more than KDE just KDE is way more fully featured
That’s cool, I’ve been wondering when they were gonna release COSMIC with the OS.
Pop!_OS was the first distro I tried, cause’ some old Linus Tech Tips video talked about how it’s very good for newcomers to Linux.
No HDR though :\
Yep. Just sad it’s not in the release version, as that was their initial plan
I myself had a ton of problems with the beta to the point I eventually rolled back, but they are doing great work over there. In my case I have a laptop with a nvidia card so I think that could have been contributing to my issues. I’ll be checking back in with them in a year to see if things have improved, otherwise I’m probably headed yo another distro.
When I moved my kid’s desktop away from Windows I chose pop!_OS because I figured it would not only be good for newcomers, but it would also be friendlier with nvidia, which it was but I didn’t want to risk it with the Cosmic beta. I think I’ll still wait a bit before upgrading from 22.10 but it’s almost time to move forward.
Good😁
