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Closing in on a COSMIC Alpha (blog.system76.com)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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[–] 38 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Gonna be off topic but how the fuck is fedi getting more traction on this over reddit.

I guess all Foss degens are banned there too haha

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    • [–] 17 points 2 years ago

    Really loving the new changes! Can't wait to see try the alpha out

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    [–] 13 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Progress looks nice! Not a big fan of how the osd and tabs look, but everything else is quite nice

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I think the osd looks good but yeah the tabs are kinda ugly tbh

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    They would look better if they added padding and switch from border color to state based background color. But if they did that, they would have to rework their design system. Too much work. I bet they tackle that much farther into it's life cycle.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    I feel like OSDs would look much better with some background transperancy which they added to the terminal couple days ago. So I would hope it gets added to OSDs soon as well

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    • [–] 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    Will Debian users be able to use Cosmic's tiling manager?

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Eventually, yes. It may be faster available if you contribute on maintaining the packages, though.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

    How do I do that?

    I'm relatively new to linux but I have some experience with Java and Python

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    • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    They want to have a release by 24.04 LTS? that's pretty ambitious

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I tried COSMIC just two weeks ago and it is incredibly buggy. Like, I crashed the whole desktop twice in 15 minutes.

    My prediction is that they will build an amazing DE, and it will take way longer than they anticipated.

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    • [–] 8 points 2 years ago

    I'm very excited for COSMIC!

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    [–] 8 points 2 years ago* (5 children)

    Does System76 have right now, or upcoming, any laptops that can match Apple's hardware quality? They seem like Clevo rebrands.

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  • [+] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)
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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Starlabs is not AFAIK, same with PINE

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    Starlabs laptops are great. I can't wait to see a review of thestarfighters laptop!

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    apple's hardware quality

    I laughed. Cheaply made Chinese builds sold at a huge markup to make it look good to rich idiots doesn't mean quality.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    I'm sorry, but I absolutely cannot understand this. Have you held a modern macbook, like a macbook m2 air, in your hands?

    I don't like their software a lot, but the hardware is top of the industry in almost every way after they released their own CPUs. For what you get, they are cheap.

    Before Apple Silicon they were more meh, though.

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    • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    i tried recently compiling the epoch build on machine, but it didn't start. maybe because of my nvidia card. nevertheless i'll be installing this as soon as it hits the arch repos!

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    Yeah I had trouble building it on Arch. Something went wrong with a particular dependency, but I forget which. I'll give it another try soon, since I'm incredibly eager to experience the newer changes.

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    • [–] -5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Oh, an alpha version, not some revival of SPARC. I know RISC-V laptops are almost a thing, and MIPS is trying to make a comeback. It's not beyond the realm of what's possible.

    Certainly it's better than my initial read of System76 doing anything with COSMAC.

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