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COSMIC is a Wayland desktop environment for Linux that is written in Rust with Smithay and Iced. COSMIC applications are developed with the libcosmic platform toolkit, which is based on iced. They are cross-platform and supported on Windows, Mac, and Redox OS in addition to Linux.

As COSMIC nears its alpha release in Q1 of 2024, we have thus far developed a terminal, file manager, and text editor for our desktop environment within the last few months.

See cosmic-epoch for instructions on building and installing COSMIC.

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[–] drwankingstein@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Nice, was able to get cosmic-edit and cosmic-term working on windows even. cosmic-files crashes out with a windows memory error, the crash doesn't happen within cosmic-files though so I can't get a backtrace. It does seem to work well enough through WSL2 though

[–] mmstick@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Make sure to report issues on GitHub with details so we can investigate it when we have time.

[–] drwankingstein@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 8 months ago

will do when I find the time. Didn't know it was in that stage yet. Don't like spamming issue tickets for new projects that haven't had time to spread its legs yet.

[–] OscarRobin@lemmy.world -2 points 8 months ago (4 children)

I still don't really get the point of Cosmic when it just looks like Gnome anyway

[–] mmstick@lemmy.world 11 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)
Me: Can we have COSMIC?
Mom: We have COSMIC at home.
COSMIC at home: Attempting to call back into JSAPI during the sweeping phase of GC. Stack trace for context

Joking aside, COSMIC is nothing like GNOME. Not visually, not feature-wise, nor is it using the same software stack. It is as close to GNOME as KDE is to GNOME. Developed from the ground up in Rust.

[–] drwankingstein@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 8 months ago

Gnome is heavy to use, and buggy, lots of people like the design of gnome, but not the perf hit. It will be nice to use apps that both don't suck, and fit our general aesthetic

[–] breden@reddthat.com 2 points 8 months ago

Michael probably can't say it, but there's a lot of people out there looking for "just" Gnome without it's original developers. For illustration you may simply google "gnome devs" and read the titles popping up. That said, lots of drama and not the most worthwhile usage of your time.

[–] edfloreshz@lemmy.ml 1 points 8 months ago

COSMIC looks nothing like GNOME...