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It wasn't that long of a delay. Just a couple months. Also, keep in mind that this was the first release of COSMIC. Even if it had hypothetically taken an extra six months, that do…

GTK3, GTK4, and libadwaita applications do look native in COSMIC. In COSMIC Settings, navigate to Desktop > Appearance > Icons and toolkit theming. Or search "toolkit" and it will …

I'd recommend everyone to try out `cosmic-store` when they get a chance. Whether you use COSMIC or not, it's fully functional with any desktop environment. It's packaged by default…

COSMIC is as similar to GNOME as KDE is similar to GNOME. There is barely any similarity at all.

Technically, COSMIC uses libcosmic rather than iced. It is a custom toolkit based on a modified version of iced.

What do you think a desktop environment is? Name one desktop environment that does not have its own file manager or terminal. Name and shame the platform and toolkit that lacks the…

There are dozens of GUI libraries and platform toolkits available to both Mac and Windows. In fact, there are plenty of GTK and Qt applications floating around on these platforms. …

Have you never heard of tiling window management? You do realize that tiling window managers are used on multi-display setups with multiple 4K displays, right? Windows have to be r…

Third party developers have access to the same APIs that COSMIC applets and applications use. It's not possible for a crate to prevent use of public APIs based on who is importing …

libadwaita/GTK4 is to GNOME what libcosmic is to COSMIC. COSMIC has no need for an alternative to GLib or GIO. Rust's standard library, the futures crates, and tokio are more than …

This is not true, and I do not know what gave you that impression. What you're describing is a side effect of using systemd-sysext, but I do not know why you would be using that.

Interface density is configurable

Where the elementary appcenter needs 900 MB, and KDE Discover needs 600 MB, the COSMIC Store needs only 60 MB. The COSMIC Store uses serde to serialize package metadata into a bitc…

It's possible to install the `cosmic-store`, but it will be some time before it's ready to replace the elementary appcenter.

That repository is a gnome-shell extension, unrelated to cosmic-epoch.

VRR, fractional scaling, and 10-bit color depth is already supported. HDR metadata is not yet supported. These will be refined before the final release.

You could purchase a Launch keyboard or Nebula case. - https://system76.com/components - https://system76.com/accessories/launch

See also our first four COSMIC applications with the default dark and light themes[0]: a terminal, file manager, text editor, and settings application. SavvyNik also demoed a sligh…

Read the instructions from the pop-os/cosmic-epoch repository.

That's just not how software development works. The quality of the software depends on the people who own the development of that software, and the technologies they used to build …

The desktop environment plays a major role in application defaults. Can you imagine installing GNOME and getting Kate as the text editor, bundled with all of its KF5 libraries? Or …

VS Code is in an entirely separate category. This is a text editor, not an extensible code editor.

A desktop environment is more than a window manager. Can't remember installing a DE and not having a platform default text editor included as a core application.

The text editor is being developed solely by our principal engineer thus far. Application updates may be the most visually interesting thing to share in an update, but it's far fro…