PRE-ALPHA RUST Cosmic Desktop on Pop!_OS 🔥

Today we'll take a look at the new RUST Cosmic Desktop by System76.

WARNING: This is still in PRE-ALPHA, and I did have the greeter break on me as you will see in the video. I would not recommend this on a production machine. Only install this to test it out.

Chapters
00:00 Intro
00:35 Prep
01:18 Rust Cosmic Install
02:20 Rust Cosmic Greeter
03:00 Fix Greeter
03:55 First Login
06:35 Neofetch
07:17 Wallpapers
08:18 Dock
08:35 Outro

#linux #popos #cosmicdesktop #rustprogramming

[tuananh-net]

Looking good. Everyone doubted that they could pull it off but they did.

[esn]

'Super' key could open app launcher, where you would be able to check new file manager and text editor

[RonVichar]

The greeter is full of bugs and I ultimately had to switch back to gdm3 since I was getting locked out and could not even reboot without switching to a tty. Not sure how they will pull off Cosmic in time for their next release to replace their Gnome implementation that they are known for. I know its not even a beta right now and looks pretty and all, but I will stick to Gnome for PopOS.

[mr.anirbangoswami]

man, you got a great-sounding voice, bet you could read some audible books. would be damn good.

[mikeschneider]

Literally the first thing I look for in a DE is a Wi-Fi network icon w/drop-menu in the upper-right. (Pop!'s is irritatingly down a sub-level, but at least it's there. I didn't see Cosmic's at all during this video review, which basically means no thought has been devoted to using it in a mobile environment, i.e., on a laptop where you're changing networks constantly as you move.)

[StaffyDoo]

I was expecting to see the window tiling functionality, more than the set of wallpapers it comes with, which I’m sure most of us will forget after the five first minutes of using the Cosmic… Edit: fixed awful typos, thanks iPad.

[janpieremindermann]

I just wonder why Pop Os has a high ram usage?

[owlmostdead]

I HATE the font just look at the "98%" at the cosmic greeter, ew. >>

[spreadneck]

You don't set it to true, you just coment it.

[eijentwun]

I know this is ALPHA, and sure...it looks ok But I have ZERO idea what makes this amazing let alone more amazing than Ubuntu Noble Numbat. I don't see nothing impressive whatsoever..and Wayland looking like trash. I don't get it.

[EugeniaLoli]

I'll be honest. This is not really that modern or interesting, apart from being written in Rust. As much as I hate the default Gnome UI (I can't live without extensions), some of its paradigms are much more modern and smarter than this one. Also, too high RAM usage (and being pre-alpha doesn't mean that it will ever shrink -- if anything, it grows).