Interesting. I'm not that knowledgeable about Linux desktop environments (despite running popos on my desktop and mint on an old laptop). I feel like gnome has a lot of tweaks and widget-y things. Is that kind of ecosystem going to crop up here? I didn't tweak much- just turned off edge tiling and added a big date/time widget to the desktop.
Also what's the upgrade path going to look like? I just installed with the defaults so /home isn't on its own partition.
It will be more customizable than Gnome with default settings. Tweaks won't be needed for certain customizations. It more likely will become an ecosystem like Gnome or KDE but that will take some time.
Not sure about the upgrade path from their current Gnome setup but I'm sure they will figure something out by the time stable is released.
tried cosmic a while back, absolutely loved the way it looked and could be customized but gestures didnt work/wasnt implemented yet (?) so it was a pain to switch to using keyboard shortcuts again. if the beta includes the gestures features id love to give it a try again
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floo@retrolemmy.com · 9 pts · 354d
jjjalljs@ttrpg.network · 5 pts · 354d
Interesting. I'm not that knowledgeable about Linux desktop environments (despite running popos on my desktop and mint on an old laptop). I feel like gnome has a lot of tweaks and widget-y things. Is that kind of ecosystem going to crop up here? I didn't tweak much- just turned off edge tiling and added a big date/time widget to the desktop.
Also what's the upgrade path going to look like? I just installed with the defaults so /home isn't on its own partition.
floo@retrolemmy.com · 5 pts · 353d
NinjaTurtle@feddit.online · 1 pts · 337d
It will be more customizable than Gnome with default settings. Tweaks won't be needed for certain customizations. It more likely will become an ecosystem like Gnome or KDE but that will take some time.
Not sure about the upgrade path from their current Gnome setup but I'm sure they will figure something out by the time stable is released.
Essence_of_Meh@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 354d
Nice! Can't wait to finally give it a try.
JustJack23@slrpnk.net · 4 pts · 354d
Just installed the alpha it is good, working so far. Looks cool for sure.
ryannathans@aussie.zone · 4 pts · 354d
Please have the ability to swap between audio devices on the same sound card. This was my only major holdback last time I trialled cosmic
kennedy@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 354d
tried cosmic a while back, absolutely loved the way it looked and could be customized but gestures didnt work/wasnt implemented yet (?) so it was a pain to switch to using keyboard shortcuts again. if the beta includes the gestures features id love to give it a try again
KaKi87@jlai.lu · 2 pts · 353d
What's the source, and why didn't they announce this themselves on their blog like usual ?
ElectricEelPoweredAxe@piefed.social · 1 pts · 353d
Its posted on the System 76 twitter.They have a link to the post in the article.
KaKi87@jlai.lu · 3 pts · 353d
Twitter ? ðŸ˜
NinjaTurtle@feddit.online · 1 pts · 337d
They also use Mastodon https://fosstodon.org/@system76