2020+6, nobody talks about cosmic anymore.It seems that the broken stable release a year ago killed all the hype around it. Youtubers and news sites were calling it the "DE that will kill KDE and GNOME". Petitions for Canonical and Redhat to move to it. Rust fanatics called it the best desktop that will ever exist.So what happened? why did it fail? I thought the tiling DE gimmick would be a killer feature, but it doesn't look like users or other DEs cared about it much.
>>109903753That fucking pedo fagtard brodie https://brodie-robertson.pages.dev/ is one of the reasons it died>does streams trying to break it on every alpha release and reports the bugs>paints it as "the only de that listens to users">daily drives it to prove that its awesome>hypes it up on literally every video about how much better than kde and hyprland it is>stable releases>cosmic is still a buggy ugly mess>no app suite apart from a baerbones file manager>cosmic devs keep closing issues that are not "approved by our in-house designers">they stop paying brodie>brodie switches to kde again and never talks about cosmic ever again
>>109903753>Youtubers and news sites were calling it the "DE that will kill KDE and GNOME".nobody said this.>>109903764das rite mane. blame brodie and not the incompetent team. you just hate the nigga cause he's muslim mane.
>>109903781imagine having that pubebeard and being a fucking youtuber that shows his face
>>109903753It's because of the Rust developers think, as most nocoders, that the language will save them. For some reason they think, they don't need to think for themselves.This idiocy led to countless memory leaks making the desktop environment eating up all the memory eventually leaving the users with "unreproducible" tag on JeetHub.Sounds familiar? It is. Welcome to GNOME developer hell hole.
>>109903753Cosmic failed because it delayed LTS releases of PopOS. I quit using PopOS when 24.04 was a year late, therefore I'm not using Cosmic and never will.
>>109903753Inkscape website is down for a month and nobody gives a fuck.
>>109904173>thread about cosmic>"Welcome to GNOME developer hell hole"?
>>109904228>reading impairmentYou need to increase your context length.
>>109903753>rewrite DE in complex, very slow to write, extremely slow to compile, translang>make it Konfigurable for all the retarded nerds like krashde>rewrite all the apps at once instead of shipping GTK for a start>seethe at DHH agentic Linux going full schizo conspiracy (they are here to overtake Linux)>ban AI>main dev transitioning soon in effort to bring back some interest in the project (this didn't happen yet)
>>109904325>GTKYou can't be serious
>>109903764a guy making videos using it killed it? kekkek it must be awful if thats enough to kill it
>>109903753You still see people reviewing it, but it's in the process of being polished for epoch 2.I use it daily and wouldn't trade it for Gnome and KDE even if paid to do so.
>>109904348I know you retards want to circlejerk over "GTK bad" but it works and there's no alternative, there's a reason it's used by xfce, cinnamon, mate, lxde>Qt, flutter, *insert whatever bullshit framework came out last week*kek
>>109903753Dunno what are you even yapping about. I daily drive it for a year and having a good time.
>>109905953There is iced.rs which is used for COSMIC apps.
>>109903753That's because GNOME just works and kept improving, hence there is no reason to switch.
>>109903753retards who still think that statically strongly typed languages are good for gui programming (they aren't)
>failed>failed>failed
>>109906614kek between KDE.in and this... I'll stick to dwm
>>109906519NTA, I used iced for a while, it just sucks. It's so fucking barebones and generally bad. They should have used slint
>>109903753>want waylanduse quickshells like noctalia dms or others, or just have ai do a quickshell>want x use lxqt and/or whatever window manager with a bar already
>>109905953>contrarianStay in your single mother's basement.
I never cared about cosmic because sway just works and I don't need more.
>>109907045You can always use libcosmic if pure iced is too barebones for your usecase.The only thing bare iced is missing for me is text ellipsis, and that's coming in the next release.
>>109907672I've tried using WMs but I like using floating windows and DEs have niceties like configuring fractional scaling for all toolkits by default that I don't want to do myself.
>>109907809Use what works for you. You don't have to use what I do if it doesn't work for you.
>>109907809>fractional scalinguse case?
>>109903753for me Quickshell made it irrelevant, and since it was revealed years ago GNOME and KDE are noticeably less shit now for whoever wants a full DE. there's just no point in waiting for COSMIC to be ready anymore, it's already way too behind.
>>109908177Crispy, readable text and the user interface not being tiny on a high-resolution display.
>>109908627use case for a "high-resolution display"? have you tried using a normal display?
>>109908701>use case for a "high-resolution display"?Crispy, readable text.>using a normal displayI did before, then I started to take better care of my eyes.t. 27" 4k monitor chad
>>109904174Same. The people running these projects obviously think their users are morons.
>>109903753Maybe died because it's fucking hideous? It took everything that repels people from GNOME and dressed it with Material Design.
