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I'm excited for Cosmic Desktop (lemmy.ca)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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From what I saw Cosmic has a lot of potential and looks pretty sleek too, right now I'm using KDE it's a great desktop, but now that I have a second monitor it randomly crashes on me, I think I'll switch to Cosmic when it reaches beta.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I can't wait to see what they can do, considering what System76 did with just GNOME.

I don't think anything's going to pry me from XFCE, though, except maybe if 4.20 hasn't made much progress on Wayland.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

whats so good about XFCE

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's very bread and butter, but also very customizable. It's also decently lightweight. Not the lightest, but a good compromise between both.

Some distros don't have the best default config, though.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Yes, and the desktop is delightfully simple. Makes older hardware feel new but still looks good enough on modern hardware.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

If they support wayland I'm in

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's new, so there's no point of supporting X11. It's Wayland only.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I meant I'm waiting for XFCE to support Wayland haha

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Oh I see, fair enough