OMG! Ubuntu:
May try and build it later, but it is not a million miles away from Gnome 
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Not a very informative article…
That is what happens when you base on article off of another article…
This seems to be the original post.
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It’ll be interesting to follow how this goes, I think it’s a cool idea to keep their product as they want it without relying on gnome.
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Thanks for sharing…I am interested in what they do to differentiate themselves. I mean there’s not really any point in completely duplicating Gnome in Rust…so they must be headed in some different directions?
I’d also be interested in EFL development status on Solus, when it starts?
Assuming it doesnt just end up being Gnome clone and actually has nice usability features and makes it easy to apply ICC profiles id use it.
Idgaf about the whole “muh rust” hype, but im all for another DE with features i like if Gnome Devs completely shit the bed in the future lol 
It’s a totally new desktop. Gnome is out!
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yeah but the question is are they just making gnome in rust? or actually going to have serious differences that make it worth using.
If its just a clone theres not really a point, its fine for Pop users but if that ends up the case then i dont care about it.
This is what Im hoping Cosmic doesnt end up being lol
Looks promising so far. I am more concerned about the extension support. Also, why GTK? Why not QT or just pure rust? I thought they tried to get out of Gnome as much as possible?
Probably because their users (and maybe their developers) are accustomed to a gtk-based system.
Building an entire DE without using a toolkit would be substantially more work. They probably don’t have the budget or time for that.
I am not sure that is really their goal. I haven’t seen it stated anywhere at least.
err… it’s not GTK. They’re using a Rust toolkit called Iced.
although, obviously, they will still make GTK and Qt apps work on their new DE, with theming too, as much as possible.
Well Pop! OS seems to bee very solid. And I really like the Pop! Shell at it’s current state.
If their independent DE works as near as good or even better as paired with Gnome, I’ll switch to it without hesitation. Hopefully they will release it for other distros, too.
they will, it’s been officially confirmed for a while, though the exact implementation will still depend on the maintainers of each distro
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The design is really butt-ugly. It looks like a slightly better, more consistent ɢɴᴏᴍᴇ.
Personally, I hate those switches. I find them to be soul-crushingly ugly. Like a poorly designed website, nagging me to enable cookies. I prefer checkboxes.
well… I have to say that it’s very subjective, because I like the way it looks. Although I would still change some things, overall it feels good to me.
it’s just really not your thing, I guess :d
It’s unfinished and rapidly changing, for example i really like that much more than what you call butt-ugly above 
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Hi, there!
Now that Cosmic Desktop reached “almost, but surely… albeit not really yet, but come on it’s practically done, so…” alpha stage, is there any movement on “our” side to see if it’d be functional and integrated with Endeavour OS?
Besides users trying out the alphas/betas because it’s fun and nice and why not, is there an intention over here to theme it, pack it with iso’s… this kind of thing?
Just wondering. And possibly wasting everybody’s time, but hey!.. well, that.
Thanks for any pointers to info I sadly probably missed.
Works fine for me. Been running it occasionally for months.
So what does it do other than it looks different?