Really excited for this. I like what they’ve done with Gnome, so I expect this will be even better.
As soon as this thing can be installed on arch, I’m doing it :)
You can do that via the AUR, it’s called cosmic-epoch-git if you have enough ram and time to build it
This is the best summary I could come up with:
System76 continues working vigorously on COSMIC, their Rust-written Linux desktop environment being written for Pop!_OS and to see availability on other Linux distributions as well.
They are finishing up last minute changes before putting the flag on a COSMIC alpha release.
System76 began their latest status update by noting there are around 20 issues to be resolved before issuing the COSMIC alpha release.
The hope remains that the COSMIC alpha version will be out before the end of July.
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COSMIC’s Input Settings has seen completed support for customizable shortcuts.
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Compositor multi-threading by having cosmic-comp use multiple threads that can be particularly helpful for high refresh rate displays and multi-monitor setups.
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Been using it for the last couple of weeks… because I am your king, king of the nerds, and also I run NixOS, because I’ve abandoned all prospects of having an actual life.
That being said, it’s still buggy, still unstable, still lacking features… but, my god it is nimble and quick. Like my CPU and memory usage dropped substantially when I moved from Plasma. The keyboard workflow will maybe be a bit grading at first, as there’s no Alt+Tab.
But… you use Super+up/down to move between workspaces, and Super+Left/Right to move between windows in a workspace - or windows inside a tab stack, and you can put any window inside a tab stack. Take that, Microsoft.
Tiling is a mode you can turn on for all workspaces, or per workspace, but you can also float whatever window to be outside the tiles. Closing all windows on a workspace and moving to another one will automatically destruct that workspace, and the workspaces below will be pushed up.
All in all, it’s a pretty great experience and I can’t wait to see everything hit alpha, as System76 is really pulling out all the stops for this one. The first fully Rust based DE is going to shake the Linux DE world, mark my words.
