I left 10 years ago and decided to come back to see if things have improved.
It’s 90% there, but there are still too many bugs and quirks that think I I’m going to go back to Windows.
I started my reintroduction to Linux using Mint. Mint is pretty good, but the UX design was terrible and the “start menu” would lose its relative aspect ratio and my 4k monitor would display a 400x200 pixel start menu. Also, when trying to install apps using flatpak, the results was convoluted. I am trying to install tailscale. Why are there so many results? Which one do I need? Maybe this one?.. Nope, not that. How do I uninstall it? Installing apps was a chore and I couldn’t get anything to run correctly.
Switched over to Pop OS which is what I’m using to post this. Oh man, its so much better than Mint. Apps install like I expect from a Windows machine and uninstall the same way. Just 2 options for Tailscale with descriptions on which one fits me better.
But there are so many quirks. The multitouch trackpad is great. The 4 finger workspace swap is amazing. 2 finger “back” button works great too. Except it doesn’t translate to anything else. Firefox/Chome/Edge doesn’t recognize the back gestures. So, I spent 30 minutes looking for a solution which led me to touchegg, which is available in the Pop Store. But after trying to install it, it freezes my computer. No worries, try again. Freeze again. Arg… that’s annoying. Whatever, my mouse back button works. I’ll live without the touchpad feature.
Install all my productivity programs (zoom, slack, office, etc) for some reason it takes forever to install these and there is a constant lag between installs that persists across all apps. Where is the progress on all the apps I selected to install? Why must I research the app to see if its done or frozen. Whatever, I only need to do this once.
I start working on my new system and I don’t really notice much of a difference between working on my Win11 machine vs Pop OS since most of my work is on a browser. After a few hours of working, I walk away for a few hours. I come back and the system is sleeping. I push the keyboard and mouse to wake it up and it’s not waking up. The power button doesn’t work either. I hard reset the system and lose some work that wasn’t on the browser. I’m super annoyed now. I spend the next hour trying to figure out how to fix my sleep issue and have yet to figure it out.
I’m running these OSs on a Dell Precision i7 with an NVIDIA dedicated card and 32gb of ram. Should I give up or is there another distro that is more turnkey?
I don’t see the words “Gnome-Based Cosmic DE” anywhere in those screenshots…
They do however mention “Gnome based desktop environment: [named] Cosmic”. Which my point still stands. This is “Cosmic” which consist of Pop Shell.
Cosmic DE, again, is the name of the Rust + Iced desktop environment which is what I am stating has nothing to do with Gnome.
They have two different names, and I spoke for the latter.
Or to rephrase, Gnome-based [named]Cosmic Desktop Environment or Gnome-based [named]Cosmic DE(Desktop Environment) or Custom Gnome Forked Desktop Environment Called Cosmic, doesn’t matter what way you fuck it, it’s still the same fucking thing.
Just an FYI since you like to twiddle your dick with semantics, the Rust-based Cosmic DE is not actually called “Cosmic DE” or “COSMIC Desktop”; that’s a nickname for marketing purposes, it’s actual official name is Cosmic Epoch.
Just can’t accept ever being wrong, can you? Seethe and Cry about it.
😅
Tell me you’re not a dev without telling me you’re not a dev :
Yes. That is the link I clicked, which you sent me, which is also where my screenshot is. In that link they state that the cosmic-epoch crate is part of Cosmic DE which is rust + iced based.
You said this yourself at the top of the thread. 😅
In fact, I have just been quoting from the links you sent me. I write software for a living, so I read very carefully.
How I imagine you making a BR in Developer chat :
You : I have bug with cosmic
Dev : which cosmic?
You : you know cosmic
Dev : which mf cosmic?
You : the gnome based one (unironically called COSMIC Desktop & COSMIC Desktop Environment(DE) from release day)
Dev : why didn’t you say that in the first place? You : because womp womp.
You : I have bug with cosmic
Dev : which cosmic?
You : you know cosmic
Dev : which mf cosmic?
You : cosmic desktop
Dev : which fucking cosmic desktop?
You : the Rust-based one?
Dev : So Cosmic Epoch (purposely named this way to distinguish from the old Gnome-based version).
You : Uhhh… Yeah?
Dev : Why didn’t you say that in the first place? You : because womp womp.
Cosmic Epoch is not a fucking crate, it’s the actual goddamn name of the project. That’s why the Cosmic Epoch repo doesn’t have any code in it, just submodules.
Wrong.
Obviously not.
I would say “Cosmic DE”, as I have been saying the whole time, just like they have named it.
If I am able to identify the specific component I would specify the submodule of Cosmic DE which is linked in the repository named cosmic-epoch.
If I wanted to report an issue with POP_Shell which is a part of COSMIC I I would go to the repository called Cosmic.
I have been restating this and restating, the fact that you’re conflating my response with what you have been calling “Gnome-Based Cosmic Desktop”.