My first impressions with cosmic were terrible to say the least. Amongst the sea of complete dealbreaker issues (horrible stutter and lag, inability to use 240hz, mouse sensitivity not working, etc) the general implementations atm are janky to say the least, tons of empty menus, wasted space, small annoying bugs.
I do realize it’s an alpha, though, so I won’t focus on the “small bugs” that can probably be fixed in 15 mins and will be fixed… in the future.
The current design language, IMO, is one of the worst I’ve seen in a while, but I don’t wanna focus on this as it’s all subjective, after all.
In this blogpost I want to focus on the broader ideology behind it, the direction and selling points.
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Are we out of our minds? It’s a barely functional alpha. All those quotes (and those are just a few) are at best running on “hopes and prayers” and not the actual experience. What foundation? Moving floating windows? MS Windows 3.0 had that. What potential? To… add more code? Just like to… anything at this stage?!
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Cosmic is a desktop that, for now, to me, has no goal. Is not catchy. Has not much to offer. I don’t know where System76 wants to take it, but if this doesn’t change, it’s not difficult for me to imagine a future where Cosmic ends up like Unity or Mir. Forgotten and barely used.
It’s receiving a lot of overly-positive reviews based on hopes and prayers, with little to be based on reality, or what we have right now.
This, adding to the aggresive marketing, makes the developers already quite hostile to negative feedback.
Cosmic is, in my opinion, on a not-so-good path at the moment, despite what those news outlets might claim.
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Even though this is a quite negative blogpost, if any of the developers at Cosmic are reading this: Stop riding on the great reviews. Accept criticism, because you know full well Cosmic is very rough at the moment. Criticism is the thing that will drive your code forward.
really? seemed a pretty decent guy tbh
Hardly
Even on github, it doesn’t take long to find an example of them just acting like an ass. https://github.com/hyprwm/Hyprland/issues/1817#issuecomment-1509207084
Hmm, I dont know. From my interactions with him (i have opened 4/5 issues on his github) he seemed like a pretty helpful guy in my opinion (but maybe i’m biased because he added features I requested, haha). Anyway, maybe he had a shitty day? Not that I find normal to act that way, but I understand. Vaxry is still a kid, and kids do mistakes
I wouldn’t consider that acting like an ass… users often make loads of super-niche requests that most people will never use, and then they’re ungrateful when you don’t do it, so I’m not really surprised at the tone of responses I read in that thread.
It’s easy to judge someone when you haven’t walked in their shoes.
This is a pretty clear cut case. Vaxry is:
That first link doesn’t have anything like what you describe
It sure as fuck does!
When I commented it was a link to a random github comment that had nothing to do with the subject. I guess they fixed it and removed the second link between my comment and yours
The first link doesn’t show what you say it does.
I read the entire second link and I do not agree with your conclusions. Do you have any specific examples that illustrate them?
I’m not here to persuade you. If the fact the FreeDesktop.org and Void linux have outright refused to interact with Hyprland over this is not enough and you still dont see how this is problematic to developers that might be alienated by how vaxry carries themselves, then you’re not going to be convinced. Either that or you support the toxicity.
Then what was the point of your original comment? Saying “this person is awful because X” sounds an awful lot like persuasion to me…
This one is pretty comprehensive
https://drewdevault.com/2024/04/09/2024-04-09-FDO-conduct-enforcement.html