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.

  • thingsiplay@beehaw.org
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    22 days ago

    The Hyprland devs (or one of them, I don’t exactly know who) is toxic and known for it. Is that person this guy? But I give him his critique, regardless of who the person is. He even acknowledge his bias. Because we should look it from every angle; something we Linux should take this to heart and not forget in general.

    I’ve seen a few posts / videos that criticize Cosmic get downvoted and bullied to hell, especially on Reddit.

    As if it is a Cosmic only thing. This happens with everything.

    System76 is not helping either, as they will proudly claim every 30 minutes that another person said “cosmic looks cool hehe!” and quote it on their twitter and website.

    I don’t understand this statement. What does he expect? That System76 talks shitty about Cosmic? What help does he refer to System76 should have done?

    Are we out of our minds? It’s a barely functional alpha.

    Are you even a developer not recognizing what has been accomplished in such a short time? The team behind Cosmic not only works on a window manager, but on a whole desktop environment. And they needed to build the foundation by working on iced first (the GUI library behind Cosmic).

    Basically, System76 will | grep “modern|cool|good” > ~/posts/newBlogpost.txt.

    Ah, your toxic comments are so helpful. We are grateful for such a brain shit. (Commenters note: I just try to communicate with him, as that’s the language he speaks.)

    … At this point I have enough. I gave him the benefit of doubt, but was disappointed.

    • entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org
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      20 days ago

      The Hyprland devs (or one of them, I don’t exactly know who) is toxic and known for it. Is that person this guy?

      Yes, it’s this guy.