It's way better than what it was months ago! Back then, I used to criticize it a lot, but today I think it holds up really well. I love the accent colors feature in particular :)

glad to hear that the progression has been good

Will it be using libadwaita or gtk3? As a Cinnamon user, that's my main question.

@@SavvyNik It's honestly looking really good. I remember trying Rust COSMIC in a VM like 3 months ago, and ofc it was pretty buggy, but the UI was amazing. Now it's looking awesome, although one complaint I have is if a window overlaps another window and neither are in focus, there's really no shadow on the borders, so they just blend in.

@@nosotrosloslobosestamosreg4115 It uses the ICE Toolkit.

Glad to hear you came around

Can't wait!

PoP OS is k, Zorin is toxic!

Oo is this like gnome tweaks?

Appreciate the support! Glad you found a good distro for yourself. Any thoughts of testing out cosmic when it officially drops?

@@SavvyNik Indeed and yup will try it out. Thanks to you too I learned so much from your channel.

Love to hear it

thank you so much

I’m pretty sure you’ll be able to choose your super key

Crapp… thanks for the reminder

Fixed now!

@@SavvyNik Thanks!

That is currently a work in progress.

The way it’s being ported to other distros I’d be surprised if it takes long. At least for the unofficial repos

Depends when the next Debian stable is released. Could be years before the next Debian release.

@@mmstick so system76 won't host a generic apt repo for cosmic?

@@kamil.g.m No, you would have to create a repository targeting each specific version of a distribution to package with that distribution's packaging environment. The desktop environment is not a static app, after all.

they release on a two year cycle tho?

Let’s petition to get it added

There's no download count. Where would you get this from?

@@mmstick Only from flathub

I think this may be problematic. To have reliable usage counts you have to prevents scripts downloading the same file 1000s of times. And countless Linux users can write one in like 5 minutes. So then you need to create accounts and only count one download per account. But creating thousands of accounts is also easily scriptable. So then you have to verify accounts with real emails or phone numbers, analyse fraud attempts, monitor and track account activities, which is what all app stores are doing. And at that point - what are you even doing and why?....

Looks better than every other app store I've seen on Linux. Clean, concise, and compact. Even better, it's responsive to small window widths. GNOME Software's the absolute worst of the bunch. Just needs some improvements to the rendering of HTML markup in app metadata descriptions.

​@@mmstick it is planned to add sorting/filters to the search in the future?

afaik they have an experimental overview that comes with the cosmic de and can be launched from the applications menu, so i think the overview will be in the final version

@@HatsuSixty I hope so, and I hope it can be activated with a single key/button press.

Cosmic is not gnome. Also the activity overview is not new?

GNOME is awful, tiling FTW.

I don’t think it would suit the tiling workflow well

It is like that to increase contrast and highlight interactable elements. Material Design 3 has similar color distribution. But you can change the default colors in Settings and have the reversed color distribution, or any colors you want.

There is no one light theme. You make it as light or as dark as you want it to be.

You can change the colors

@@Anthenriiigoesnutttss that's not a valid excuse for bad colors... imagine if it were Gnome. every linux guru would shit on them

What makes you think that is even possible?

They can't remove something when they are building it from scratch

I have no problem with that since I disabled overview on gnome

@@0x00a Cosmic started as a set of GNOME Shell extensions that removed it.

@@pixelforg that doesn't make any sense. Why would anyone choose to have a worse experience?

​@@Lestibournes For me overview was the worse experience, I'll explain how it was. Long comment ahead. So I was using default gnome at first and like everyone I was using the overview, however I started getting pissed off when I got frame drops or stutter, I'm not using some super old gpu (6600XT). Realising that animations just aren't perfect here I then disabled them because I'd rather have no animations than get stutter sometimes. So i was using gnome overview without any animations. Some time later I tried pop os and the workflow instantly clicked for me, i like to just press the super key to show the launcher and then search for the app I want to use, this is much faster and has less clutter than going to the overview and finding the app. On gnome I'm replicating this using the Arc Menu extension, and since i stopped using the overview I just disabled it. I like where cosmic is heading, I tried it today and it's much better than gnome, everything opens faster (I got tired of seeing loading spinners just to open my terminal.....), can't wait until cosmic is stable! And it'll also kill my urge to try some tiling wms , the tiling in it is perfect for me