Good explanation. Thank you sir

Tested it with an Artix Distro, I'm graceful that i didn't find any SystemD components that stopped me from installing it, by comparission with Hyprland I can see that UI is very solid, and functionality is just halfway there If it came with Pipewire integration for sound i would be already daily driving it even in Alpha release, nonetheless it looks promising

I won't leave KDE! It always keeps better. Cosmic looks very ugly

What's the difference between Incus and Cockpit?

The terminal still cannot handle everything properly. Just try btop and change window sizes. But getting better and better. It won't be terribly long before usable, but years before fully featured compared to the other main DEs.

There is a lot of invisible work going on where the underlying libraries (windowing library, compositor, applets, etc.) are getting fixes, improvements, enhancements to build a solid foundation. A great attention to details from the team.

nice to see a proper alt tab. now windows alt tab did properly cycle through recent apps many many many many years ago and amazingly it actually worked. however the idiots at Microsoft changed the algorithm and it's been broken from a ui pov ever since. nice to see it working here whereas a billion dollar company keeps their garbage algorithm.

Looks ok for a tiling DE, but curious how it will keep up with Gnome

Hi DJ, Thanks for your Video See Cosmic does make divided opinions

It's no better than Plasma. And it's new, and unstable. And it shares all of the issues Gnome imposed upon us. No, thanks.

Looks good, but I still prefer gnome

Just in time for the Windows 10 EOL date.

To me it just looks like GNOME - and I don't use GNOME (or KDE) because of bloat and unnecessary eye-candy that just wastes CPU cycles. You can already get a "seamless experience", and a streamlined one, using a tiling window manager, TUI or CLI-based apps and a few keyboard shortcuts, aliases and scripts. You have two choices with your Linux desktop - either go out and find/build it yourself while spending the time to do so and learning something in the process, or sit there and wait for someone else to do the hard work and get some new "fashion accessory" that you'll be bored with within a few months because it still doesn't do quite what you want it to do.

Definitely looking forward to this. There are still some major holdups for me on my particular setup, but from what I’ve seen it looks very promising. Really, I just want some basic tiling features on a package that actually feels like a cohesive desktop and that doesn’t force me to reinvent the wheel for basic features. Might actually get me back on Linux as a daily driver.

Cosmic is awesome. I used it in alpha 3 and 4 on NixOS for 2 months until it started to Crash from time to time, so i went back to hyprland. I'll give it another try soon to see if things are fixed now on NixOS.

cosminc is just a variant of gnome, cinnamon is much better than it

How all that improve security? when hardware backdoors still exist?

I'm worried about System76's financial future though. I hope all this work has some ROI at the end of the day.

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It looks really good, I don't know if it will be enough to make me leave Plasma, but I see the potential.

Long time KDE user here. I also have Cosmic DE installed on my system. Pretty functional for an alpha release and I really like where this is going. I'm considering using it as my main DE, once it gets a stable release.

I’ve been using 5 since it was released and it’s been working great.

Are the developers working on that embarrassing memory leak creep? Oops.

I will stay with FVWM (probably forever) but I have to say I like that they make the active window stand out with that yellow border. It should be so obvious but the trend seem to be that active & inactive windows look almost the same. Even Windows 95 got this right. OpenBSD's standard config of it's default FVWM is that the borders of the inactive windows are blue and active window border is red. I mean, you won't miss which one's active. And that's how it should be. With multiple large monitors, seeing what's active is a good feature. I have seen way to many examples of desktops where the only difference is that the active window has black text in the title and all the others have grey text, usually on some also grey background, and how stupid is that?

I am cautiously optimistic about the Cosmic DE. From what I have heard from System76 they actually seem to be making it easy to use and customizable especially compared to gnome but not to the extent where there are hundreds of toggles like KDE. Honestly I think my biggest Feature Request for them would be to rebrand PopOS into CosmicOS. Popos just sounds like something I would give my kids and not something that I can actually recommend to other users. I really think rebranding it along with the launch could actually help them here.

Screenshot is planned for late 2030, screen recording might appear In early second half of the century What advanced features we are talking about when even most basic functionality is not there?

That yellow border vaguely reminds me about OS/2 2.2, IBM did a lot of research to build the Workplace Shell, including the colors. Let's see how it evolves, I really, really love how Gnome has evolved.

Long time gnome user here. I am going to switch to cosmic. It has been a nice 25 years, thanks to all the gnome devs.

nah cosmic de sucks man

Q: what is the thermometer reading in the studio? it's so cold your beard looks frostbitten!

YES First! Great Vid!

Sadly, I'm a disaster when it comes to math and programming, due to dyslexia & dyscalculia. I can understand some really advanced university level math, but never get the figures right. And I've done some programming, but my programs always behave irattically. In the computing introductory course I took at technical college in 1983(?), we were assigned to write a program in PASCAL to do some mathematic calculation (some sum I think?) for different input values. Different approaches could be taken, to mitigate the VAX 1100 (?) computers maximum computing accuracy (was it "frontier tech" 64bit?) Anyway, there were only 4 such computers in Europe at the time. We had one at Chalmers, Gothenburg, Sweden, because developement of propellers for USA nuclear submarines were designed there. After five weeks, my program still derailed about every 10th run of values. I "solved" this problem by using the built in word processor in UNIX, to edit my testrun batches, before submitting together with the code. I know, I was cheating, but I figured I had basically understood things, and I had spent weeks (some day's 18 hours), and I figured no professor would actually run my program. ;-) Later, I worked some as a buyer of systems for a large company's marketing department. That was fun. I could use my rather good understanding of tech to make specifications for systems / programming, without having to mess up any actual code! ;-) Somehow I left the field of computing. That was probably a shame, it was really interesting, even if I have better to stay off any hands on programming! ;-) I never did finish technical college, but instead studied / focused on economics / marketing. I do have a mechanical patent though, and pursue technical hobbies.

Thanks for this video. I recently updated an internal VM from CentOS 7 to AlmaLinux 8, but I am considering switching to CentOS Stream with version 9. What I don't like: there is not official way to upgrade between major versions of CentOS Stream... You talked about Rocky and AlmaLinux. There is a difference: Alma uses CentOS Stream as the base, Rocky Linux uses RHEL.

(In my humble opinion anyways) You are never to old for this you can (as I understand it) you can do as much contribute as much as you want to (At least in the Linux ( a community ) you already do (By the way) by doing these Videos! Thank you!!

So far Snapdragon X Elite on Linux is crap.

Two thumbs up video! As always excellent advice with hands on learning. I know and still use ext4 and it's past predecessors ext3 and ext2 file systems since the 1990's. I still use ext4 for much the same reasons mentioned on the btrfs video. And I hope to see more of this in the future! I've used zfs which is proven but much to learn. I do use xfs for storage which is older and allows for interesting file sizes and disk formatting. XFS some commands and setup. Works well and easy mounting. xfs_repair -L /dev/sdd1 fsck.xfs -f /dev/sdd1 mkfs.xfs block_device When using mkfs.xfs on a block device containing an existing file system, add the -f option to overwrite that file system. OpenBSD and their ffs2 file system is really different disk setup. "Disk labels are used to manage OpenBSD filesystem partitions. They contain certain details about your disk, such as drive geometry and filesystem information, as described in depth in the disklabel(5) man page. Use the disklabel(8) command to edit the labels." I think of disk partitions as walls, containers for various file system formats and not labels. But ffs and ffs2 has a very different way of doing this? I hope I have not confused anyone to much but learning is sometimes this way. :)

I continue to chip away at some home grown unix bash scripts to run borg. SSH keys are working great. Restores are also working. I agree that restoration of unix ownership and rwx permissions are really important. I like the mount option that borg supports so you can browse the repos - a bit slow but I would expect it.

We are borg))) resistance is futile

I'm currently running FreeBSD 14.2 with the KDE Desktop. I prefer BSD over Linux because it is proper UNIX.

Negentropic Solution Sets Through Pattern Preservation I. Information Theory Triplet A. Maxwell's Demon Resolution Demon state: |D⟩ = √(2/3)|measure⟩ + √(1/6)(|sort⟩ + i|erase⟩) Information conservation: ∂I/∂t + ∇·J = M(I) Pattern preservation: P(demon) > 2/3 through cycle B. Quantum Information Paradox Black hole state: |H⟩ = √(2/3)|horizon⟩ + √(1/6)(|interior⟩ + i|radiation⟩) Information flow: I(t) = I₀e^(-αt)cos(πt/3) Pattern maintenance: P(hole) · P(radiation) > 2/3 C. Quantum Decoherence Solution Coherence state: |C⟩ = √(2/3)|quantum⟩ + √(1/6)(|environment⟩ + i|interaction⟩) Pattern evolution: P(t) = P₀e^(-αt)cos(πt/3) Scale coupling: K(q,e) = e^(-α|q-e|)cos(π|q-e|/3) II. Biological Evolution Triplet A. Morphogenetic Field Patterns Field state: |M⟩ = √(2/3)|form⟩ + √(1/6)(|gradient⟩ + i|flow⟩) Pattern dynamics: ∂|M⟩/∂t = -(i/ħ)Ĥ|M⟩ + αP̂|M⟩ Form preservation: P(shape) > 2/3 B. Evolutionary Innovation Evolution state: |E⟩ = √(2/3)|adapt⟩ + √(1/6)(|mutate⟩ + i|select⟩) Pattern emergence: P(new) = P₀e^(-αt)cos(πt/3) Information gain: ΔI > ln(2) per generation C. Development Orchestration Growth state: |G⟩ = √(2/3)|organize⟩ + √(1/6)(|differentiate⟩ + i|integrate⟩) Pattern coordination: P(develop) > 2/3 Scale harmony: K(n,m) > φ^(-|n-m|) III. Cosmological Creation Triplet A. Universe Generation Creation state: |U⟩ = √(2/3)|expand⟩ + √(1/6)(|structure⟩ + i|complexity⟩) Pattern inflation: P(t) = P₀e^(Ht)cos(πt/3) Information growth: ∂I/∂t = H·P(t) B. Multiverse Coherence Multiverse state: |M⟩ = √(2/3)|branch⟩ + √(1/6)(|interact⟩ + i|evolve⟩) Pattern resonance: K(u₁,u₂) = e^(-α|u₁-u₂|)cos(π|u₁-u₂|/3) Coherence: P(multi) > 2/3 C. Cosmic Purpose Purpose state: |P⟩ = √(2/3)|meaning⟩ + √(1/6)(|value⟩ + i|growth⟩) Pattern evolution: ∂|P⟩/∂t = -(i/ħ)Ĥ|P⟩ + αM̂|P⟩ Negentropic drive: dS/dt < 0 through P(t) IV. Cross-Solution Integration A. Pattern Space Structure Between solutions i,j,k: R(i,j,k) = P(i)P(j)P(k)cos(π|i-j-k|/3) Requirements: - Pattern coherence > 2/3 - Scale coupling > φ⁻¹ - Information gain > ln(2) B. Negentropic Flow Evolution equation: ∂|N⟩/∂t = -(i/ħ)Ĥ|N⟩ + αM̂|N⟩ + βR̂|N⟩ With constraints: - dS/dt < 0 locally - ∂I/∂t + ∇·J = M(I) - P(t) > 2/3 globally C. Creative Emergence Development through: 1. Pattern preservation 2. Information enhancement 3. Scale resonance 4. Negentropic complexity This framework reveals how fundamental creative processes maintain coherence through pattern-preserving negentropic evolution.

GlustetFs is not maintained anymore. Will you continue to use it or will use something different? Best wishes.

Don’t waste our time. Get to ZFS.

I love the format of this video. This would have been great to find sooner in my journey, but I can still appreciate it today.

No support for backup to cloud (S3 etc) :-(

Thanks for the overview. Much appreciated. Don't hate me, but the bit at 28:08 gave me python vibes: kzbin.info/www/bejne/roDVmH-gbtGCrc0si=k7cK3ndkPv7Asxwe&t=127

Been using borg for like 8 years. Great tool Looking to migrate my custom scripts to borgmatic at some point

Fantastic talk. Thank you

1. Thomson and Ritchie do their thing and birth UNIX 2. Bureaucrats and politician get messes things up 3. Tannenbaum start to open things up 4. Stallman starts the revolution 5. Torvalds releases Linux The rest is history!

At university, we also spent an entire semester on a project to synchronize processes. That is such a small part of an OS. Fortunately, I grew up in the MS-DOS era, allowing me to work directly with hardware and processes. Writing programs that utilized the BIOS, UART, file systems, and TSR programs provided hands-on learning about operating systems. And of course building and rebuilding computers from the hardware up.

Wanted to update you on some testing I am doing, I have reached the point of using one of my production servers, and I have my ssh port on something different than port 22, also I use public/private key certificates. First the certs works fine without any modifications. If you need to pass the port number use this: ssh://<yourserver_name>:<your port for sshd>/<your directory path to the borg repo>