A Week in Cosmic on BARE METAL!

I spent a full 7 days working the day job and playing around in the new Cosmic desktop from System76's Pop!_OS.
Some things I forgot to mention in the video:
- Would like to have a pywal type effect that would change the accent and active hint colors to match the current wallpaper.
- Im using 2 GB of ram at idle. During my normal workday with 3 browsers, 6-9 tabs open and the occasional Libreoffice sheet open. Ram was typically around 5-6 GB avg with one peak that I noticed was up to 10 GB when I also had a vm running for a short while. These are nearly the same that I get with Pop shell (gnome version) on the same machine.
- Multi monitor on Cosmic is a dream come true. This is the proper way for a DE to implement tiling window features. Not this convoluted crap that Gnome and KDE did. Its obvious that the Cosmic devs are true tiling window manager fans. This is 100% AWESOME! A user wants to take advantage of multiple desktops. Most will use 1 or 2 windows per desktop. Cosmic makes me think of what you would get if i3/bspwm and gnome had a baby.

[@OrangeZXZ]

Im very exited for this! I only hope they polish a bit more the top and bottom bar, icons, and buttons I think when this is releasing it will definitely attract more peoples into pop os ❤

[@rogerdahl0]

Really enjoyed this. Thanks :)

[@Mr_Smarty_Pants]

Really looking forward to this. I've also been using PopOS as my daily driver for the last 24 months or so.

[@Prophet6000]

The workspace stuff has sold me. That was the one thing I need info on.

[@MikesGlitch]

Looks cool. I'm pretty new to Linux but might give this a try. I like this UI

[@TheDoctor_]

great work UB :)

[@unklebonehead]

Thanks 😁

[@pablosanmartinvarela1773]

Could you go through all the settings and show what it option does? I'm particularly interested in workspace config.

[@vivaanreddy8771]

Nice

[@iamkartiknayak]

I'm running cosmic on my main machine.

[@joaomendoncayt]

how's the experience been? make a video!

[@unklebonehead]

Nice!

[@TrustJesusToday]

I get the Cosmic thing, but Hyprland has what I was looking for in an environment. Cosmic looks like Gnome with tiling enhancements.

[@mmstick]

Not sure I see the comparison. It's more like what Xfce wants to be if it were made from the ground up in Rust. You have a collection of interface components with panels, and you can configure your desktop layout in any way you want by dragging and dropping applets around your panels and desktop.

[@johnspurrier5048]

Can make it look like gnome or kde even but also has tiling like i3/sway/hyprland. Best of both worlds. Plus its built in rust so speed over Gnome or QT will be a huge benefit.

[@Wakizu]

waiting for binaries to hit AUR

[@froggyman_]

Long life to the aur

[@Lestibournes]

It looks good and I'm looking forward to it, but I can't imagine not having the Activities Overview like in GNOME Shell.

[@edfloreshz]

There’s an overview in COSMIC.

[@Lestibournes]

@@edfloreshz Excellent.

[@unklebonehead]

There will be. It's just not activated yet.

[@edfloreshz]

@@unklebonehead You can toggle it by clicking on the current workspace.

[@estevegraells]

Appreciate the video, but in 4 years, everyhing will be voice centered, most UIs will get obsolete so quick

[@GiovanniPedrelli]

Not so sure

[@rkfarhansadik]

I don't think so....

[@lll_Death_lll]

Have you seen Cortana?

[@thesullivanstreetproject]

I want nothing to do with that kind of AI. I’ll still be using a regular desktop environment.

[@PawirodinomoM]

Lol, I dont want to waste my time talking to my pc 😂