Cosmic an alternative to gnome in near future?

[anon31549144]

@Zircon34

Looks like system 76 wants to write its own shell and replace gnome with its own DE written in Rust. Although seems they still will use some gtk components.

Excited? Can they pull it off? Summary can be found in this article:

Would be nice if the new DE would not a-splode when trying to install Steam

[mshmm]

@mshmm

The relationship between GNOME and System76 is not in a good place right now.

The fallout continues:

System76 accused of not collaborating with GNOME

[ricklinux]

I like the sounds of System76 on EndeavourOS.

[Trekkie00]

I just read a german article about tensions between System76 and the Gnome project. The writer comes to the conclusion :

System76 joins the ranks of projects (companies) that have difficulty reconciling their own quest for success with community cooperation. Exclusion and cooking one’s own soup have never led to success in the history of free software. Collaboration between projects and upstream delivery are the better recipes for working towards a common goal. System76 must ask itself whether its behaviour is not just lip service to free software and the community.

Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)

Original article :
gnulinux.ch System76 verweigert sich upstream (System76 refuses upstream)

I guess we have to wait, how things develop.

[Zircon34]

@Trekkie00

Exclusion and cooking one’s own soup have never led to success in the history of free software

Definition of gnome DE?!

[gideon]

No more like a definition of Ubuntu being 6 months behind Gnome, and using snap.