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What are your thoughts on the upcoming COSMIC DE? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Basically title, with System76 moving from gnome to their new rust built COSMIC environment what are your thoughts?

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I'm looking forward to it.

On the technical side, they are using pure Rust to build the DE, and the Rust GUI ecosystem has been greatly improved by their hard work. If their product turns out to be successful, Iced may eventually become "the Qt of Rust".

As a user I like their design shown in current demos, and a Wayland-first DE with first class nvidia support is really needed.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

A new toolkit that's a genuine competitor of Qt would be nice indeed.