Cosmic Desktop First Look - PopOS and System76 New DE

Today we do a first look at the alpha edition of Cosmic DE on PopOS. Lets look at what is working and what doesn't.
#cosmic #popos #linux

Get the Distro Here:

00:00 - Introductory Comments
01:05 - Installer Comments
02:11 - Into the DE
03:41 - Settings Panel
07:40 - Tiling
08:38 - COSMIC BROKE - Workspaces Not Working
09:50 - All Applications
10:56 - App Store - System and Flatpaks

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[TitelSinistrel]

You quite quickly went past the resolution and scaling section. Would be really interested if and how it does fractional scaling and how applications react to fractional scaling.

[PerfMonk]

workspaces are working fine on mine. I'm on a Asus VivoBok with all AMD cpu/gpu. Absolutely no bugs 👍

[thefablesfolly]

Apps that sit in the system tray normally won't reopen for me after I close a window (Discord and Steam, for example)

[kpcraftster]

Another bug: you cannot resize your swap after initial installation: when you reboot, it resets your swap configuration to the way you set it during installation.

[benstensaa]

If I install this alpha will I be able to update to release when that is out?

[JoshBagwell]

Do we know if this uses wayland or x11?

[TheSecdroid]

Tried running the Cosmic 24 .iso file under Boxes on Fedora 40. I had similar issue with workspaces.

I then installed the Cosmic Alpha to Fedora 40 itself, following the instructions linked on the Sytem76 page. (Simple two-line install. Enable repository and then dnf install)

I can now switch back and forth between Gnome and Cosmic on the Fedora login screen.

I simply can not believe just how well Cosmic Alpha code works on Fedora 40. I had a minor issue with a Brave browser error code at first, but it has resolved. As far as I can tell, my Fedora Gnome apps, settings, etc all work fine under Cosmic. I'm a Cosmic newbie and have a lot to learn, but I'm going to try using Fedora40/Cosmic as my daily driver. I expect to have issues, but it is astonishingly smooth so far.

If I get any show-stoppers, all I have to do is logout and switch back to Gnome.

Highly recommended!

[PhinAI]

Cool. Thank you. This is a distro I haven't given any time, but have been curious about. I'm not thinking that I'll use it instead of Debian-esque distros. I think I enjoy LMDE best at this point.

[willi]

hope they'll add a settings page for keyboard shortcurs like in gome

[bobbybologna]

This trend of putting tiling in an environment clearly designed for floating windows is just so weird to me.

[kpcraftster]

But will it support gnome extensions? And if, as I assume, it won't, will it support its own extensions to make it usable, or are you stuck with a default gnome clone?
For example, without dash-to-panel and arcmenu, (modern) gnome isn't worth using. Cosmic is going to need something similar to emulate that sweet redmond ui, because this default ui doesn't cut it for me.

[aurthorthing]

This one sucks!
I liked their old version and I was going to use it last week... but when I downloaded the ISO I got this rainbow vomit.
This takes too much energy to find what I need.

[dacisky]

Not happy with the workspaces glitches.

[tvevbft]

Switching to debian and kde is a wise choice