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What are your thoughts on the upcoming COSMIC DE?

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Basically title, with System76 moving from gnome to their new rust built COSMIC environment what are your thoughts?

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Spore@lemmy.ml
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I’m looking forward to it.

On the technical side, they are using pure Rust to build the DE, and the Rust GUI ecosystem has been greatly improved by their hard work. If their product turns out to be successful, Iced may eventually become “the Qt of Rust”.

As a user I like their design shown in current demos, and a Wayland-first DE with first class nvidia support is really needed.

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Michael Murphy@lemmy.ml
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NVIDIA graphics is already well supported by cosmic-comp for those that want to give it a go on Pop!_OS. I’m typing from a laptop with NVIDIA hybrid graphics in the discrete graphics mode. In addition to the iced library, slint is already a decent alternative to QML.

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lightrush@lemmy.ca
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A new toolkit that’s a genuine competitor of Qt would be nice indeed.

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