I've never wanted to "rice" my Pop!_OS, but I think I've been disappointed that Gnome couldn't add some simple changes like the following from COSMIC without installing third party software.

Beyond changing from Dark to Light mode and choosing an accent color you can change the application background, interface text palette tint and neutral palette tint. You’ll also be able to choose one of the three styles for the corner radii used throughout the interface and set an interface density.

Finally! Notifications can happen where you want, and they're not connected to the calendar. This is a massive win for me. Gnome's is really annoying being top center and dropping down into your work. I've always turned off 95% of notifications. If I can have them bottom left or right I will love that.

The notifications applet has been integrated into COSMIC DE! Unlike in Pop!_OS 22.04 LTS, notifications exist in their own applet, separate from your calendar.

Very cool; looking forward to trying this out!

I really wish they can make this DE configuration dotfile-compatible (or at least being able to configure it using the CLI). One of the things I hate is setting up KDE/GNOME in a non-automated way every new installation.

I put trying out pop!_os on my list long time ago but never committed to it. Maybe finally this weekend I will replace ubuntu with pop os.

The cosmic environment looks very promising. Hope it won't take too long.

I'm stoked for this! Fairly new to Linux and tried out a few distros and pop_os has been my favorite so far. Gnome is intuitive to me, but I do like customizing a bit more so this kind of sounds like the best of both worlds.

Didn't realize they also did consumer computers and for having house made parts and being all open source, it is very affordable. Cool stuff!

Thanks team for the hard work, this is shaping up to be a good platform. I would like to learn more coding and play with making some simple apps. I read the rust book (and completing the exercises) and the borrow checker and syntax seem friendly to me even only having only dabbled in light scripting and querying. However, I don't really know much about actually making a full program. Like I'm not super clear on how to best store persistent data, hook things into a GUI, etc. I don't have a lot of experience building an api and best practice with exposing private/public, etc. Outside of school does anyone have any advice for getting started on application building? Also will libcosmic be getting some documentation and quickstart type material in the next year?

I haven't used PopOS, but then COSMIC desktop really looks interesting.

I would like to see how it competes with well established DEs like GNOME, KDE & XFCE.

Will the new COSMIC DE have desktop icons? I use them everyday, I combine keyboard shortcut and desktop icons, so I'd hope to see them one day!

Also, is it normal that the mouse is accelerated, kinda dependant of SDDM stock values?

EDIT: GDM3, not SDDM