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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Very excited about this.

Recently discovered GNOME and loved the workflow, and now I find out Cosmic improves upon it with a more modern programming language behind it, which is native to Wayland.

I'm not much of an Alpha tester, but ill be following the progress of the project closely.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago

I do really like it now. It has quirks currently compared to gnome and kde but it's shaping up well. I think it'll be pretty stable by 26.04 LTS and a good foundation for the future