POP_Os Cosmic desktop

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Oh, really? Interesting!

Thank you for your answer. :slight_smile:

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Lots of info hereā€¦

And hereā€¦

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Well after you do some basic reading, youā€™ll know more (if youā€™re interested enough to do it).
But the synopsis is a modern written from scratch tiling desktop environment.
Can be compiled from GIT/AUR.

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From the YouTube videos Iā€™ve seen and the many articles Iā€™ve read, Cosmic seems to be a tiling-optional environment with traditional DE by default.

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Thatā€™s probably a slightly expanded version of my very terse descript.

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Iā€™d probably wait for all associated work to https://github.com/pop-os/cosmic-epoch/issues/356 to be completed first.

It seems initial support for groups was merged last week which is very encouraging, but I suspect the process tree is still not reformed and I suspect that in its original state it would be prone to annoying behavior if/when the session crashes.

All that said, I suspect that COSMIC will 100% be packaged and maintained in Arch repos when it is production-ready, so you will be able to set it up on EOS too without having to go through AUR if you can be a bit patient.

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We probably wouldnā€™t consider integrating it into the installer unless:

  • It was fully packaged on the Arch side
  • We felt the out of the box experience was sufficiently polished to provide users with a good experience
  • There was a sufficient demand to include it either from the maintainers or the community

We donā€™t actually include every DE in the installer. There are several that are packaged on Arch that we donā€™t include. For example, Cutefish, Deepin, Enlightenment, Pantheon, UKUI, etc

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It absolutely makes sense, thanks!

I can wait. So yes, itā€™ll be interesting to see how that DE turns out.

Thanks again. :slight_smile:

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I understand and Iā€™m fine with that. Thanks for explaining it to me (and to other potentially distracted users like me). :slight_smile: