Bit of a side note, but COSMIC depends on the rustybuzz text shaper which is deprecated: https://github.com/RazrFalcon/rustybuzz/issues/74. There was some work underway to bring it up to sync with the latest harfbuzz and then handing over ownership to the harfbuzz team, but this seems to have fizzled out.
> Now Available on NixOS!
As soon as you can do something like `desktopManager.cosmic.enable = true`(like you can for KDE and Gnome) I'm immediately switching to Cosmic!
Related:
System76's Cosmic Desktop Working Toward Its Alpha Release - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38959271 - Jan 2024 (10 comments)
Pop _OS Cosmic Desktop Improving Multi-Monitor and Multi-Window Support - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38656529 - Dec 2023 (43 comments)
Locked and Loaded with New Cosmic DE Updates - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37970594 - Oct 2023 (28 comments)
COSMIC DE: Desktop environment created for Pop!_OS and other Linux distros - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36725105 - July 2023 (148 comments)
Cosmic DE update: System76's new Linux desktop environment - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34599094 - Jan 2023 (260 comments)
Pop_OS Cosmic Desktop to Make Use of Iced Rust Toolkit Rather Than GTK - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33066593 - Oct 2022 (93 comments)
Pop_OS 21.04 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27683738 - June 2021 (165 comments)
Cosmic: System76 take auto-tiling intuitive desktop environment - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27683615 - June 2021 (1 comment)
System76 Developing “Cosmic” Desktop Environment - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26798080 - April 2021 (414 comments)
> Unfortunately, there’s no way to animate a fog effect for when you exhale on the screen.
They're trying to nerdsnipe some dev with too much time, right?
Arch + cosmic is something I am looking forward to trying out.
What are perspectives on System76 vs a ThinkPad for a modern Linux machine?
Outside of buying a system76 laptop, is there a way to fund/donate to the Cosmic DE project?
[dupe]
Some more discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38959271
Do they expect it to be ready in time for the LTS release this year?
I cannot wait. This looks so nice.
> Now Available on NixOS!
Not what I expected to see, but this is what I'm secretly hoping for when I see hn threads about COSMIC!
I love everything I'm hearing about COSMIC, and I'm super excited to get my hands on it (even if it's in a pre-alpha state.)
edit: that quote is specifically about the COSMIC Terminal. (But a lot of other COSMIC components are already in NixOS, as mentioned in TFA.)