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Closing in on a COSMIC Alpha(blog.system76.com)

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sadreality@kbin.social
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Gonna be off topic but how the fuck is fedi getting more traction on this over reddit.

I guess all Foss degens are banned there too haha

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umbrella@lemmy.ml
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the foss people are probably the people who migrated to the fedi first

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quaternaut@lemmy.world
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Really loving the new changes! Can’t wait to see try the alpha out

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Blisterexe@lemmy.zip
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Progress looks nice! Not a big fan of how the osd and tabs look, but everything else is quite nice

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Fisch@lemmy.ml
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I think the osd looks good but yeah the tabs are kinda ugly tbh

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Blisterexe@lemmy.zip
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To be fair I’ve never seen window tabs on a twm that look good

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warmaster@lemmy.world
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They would look better if they added padding and switch from border color to state based background color. But if they did that, they would have to rework their design system. Too much work. I bet they tackle that much farther into it’s life cycle.

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Pantherina@feddit.de
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They build a desktop toolkit which can be used for many others, with way different styles. Budgie thought about that but abandoned the idea afaik.

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git@lemmy.world
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I feel like OSDs would look much better with some background transperancy which they added to the terminal couple days ago. So I would hope it gets added to OSDs soon as well

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Kickass Women@lemmy.world
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Will Debian users be able to use Cosmic’s tiling manager?

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sebsch@discuss.tchncs.de
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Eventually, yes. It may be faster available if you contribute on maintaining the packages, though.

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Kickass Women@lemmy.world
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How do I do that?

I’m relatively new to linux but I have some experience with Java and Python

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sebsch@discuss.tchncs.de
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Should be straight forward. If you willing to do all the work, the Debian community should be very welcoming

https://www.debian.org/intro/help

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priapus@sh.itjust.works
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Packaging doesn’t usually require programming knowledge. Usually just a little bit of bash and reading the documentation.

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neo (he/him)@lemmy.comfysnug.space
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They want to have a release by 24.04 LTS? that’s pretty ambitious

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Chewy@discuss.tchncs.deOP
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[…] we […] work towards an eventual 24.04 release over the summer.

If all goes well, we can release the alpha by the end of March.

https://blog.system76.com/post/cosmic-the-road-to-alpha

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neo (he/him)@lemmy.comfysnug.space
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I’m a little excited, not gonna lie. I really liked their take on Gnome.

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PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de
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I tried COSMIC just two weeks ago and it is incredibly buggy. Like, I crashed the whole desktop twice in 15 minutes.

My prediction is that they will build an amazing DE, and it will take way longer than they anticipated.

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Blisterexe@lemmy.zip
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Its not even alpha yet, of course it’ll be buggy

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PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de
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sure! I’m not complaining, just saying that I predict it will take longer to complete than they anticipate

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