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Re: System76 Developing “Cosmic” Desktop Environment

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Post by aidenn0 »

thepangolino wrote: post #26
CoolGuySteve wrote: post #19

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The best thing about Unity is that now it will never change for better or worse and still works with Ubuntu 20.04. It's fairly minimalist and frozen in stasis like I wish Apple had done with the SnowLeopard UI.

The only thing I liked about unity was the HUD that allowed you to search through application menus by typing the setting you were looking for. Do you know if there’s anything offering that functionality for Gnome3?

This is my biggest missing feature from the Mac. Do any of the major GUI toolkits for linux support this?

Re: System76 Developing “Cosmic” Desktop Environment

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Post by fullstop »

tekromancr wrote: post #4

Things System 76 does: maintain their own os distro, desktop environment, coreboot fork, system firmware Things System 76 refuses to do: usbc PD I say this as a very happy S76 customer

I'm charging my Darter Pro over USBC-PD right now. It works perfectly except for when applying firmware updates which check to see if the charging cable is connected, and that might be expected if the firmware update would interrupt the PD charging.

Re: System76 Developing “Cosmic” Desktop Environment

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Post by qbasic_forever »

snicker7 wrote: post #49

"Keyboard" or "Mouse" driven? What about trackpad? I would love some gestures to quickly switch windows and workspaces.

Gnome 3 has gesture support. I don't think many are built in, certainly not as many as mac OS gives you out of the box. But you can go wild: https://github.com/mpiannucci/gnome-shell-extended-gestures

Re: System76 Developing “Cosmic” Desktop Environment

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Post by fullstop »

iudqnolq wrote: post #31
notwhereyouare wrote: post #18

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I'll admit, I haven't tried on my laptop, but doesn't the Darter Pro support USB C charging? Direct from their website Charger 65 Watts, AC-in 100~240V, 50~60Hz, DC-out 19V, 3.42A, USB Type-C Charging Compatible

I have one, and it doesn't seem to work. I haven't filed a ticket though, as I don't really care. I just tried a usb-c pd compatible cable, although I'm not certain the brick that connects the cable to the wall is pd compatible. Usb c, eurgh, why do I have to think about this sort of thing.

It works. I use this brick: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B083ZBXXN5

Re: System76 Developing “Cosmic” Desktop Environment

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Post by bmurphy1976 »

kaibee wrote: post #39
varispeed wrote: post #34

I wish they had a laptop with a latest and top AMD, 14" 4K IPS matte panel, programmers friendly keyboard (pg up/down home end on dedicated keys at least), expandable RAM and nvme drive, silent fans and metal chassis and a Linux support. Less important physical camera and wi-fi cut off switch. If there was an ARM chip with comparable performance to M1 I would consider it too if it was running Linux. After watching th…

Drop the 4K IPS for a 2560x1440 panel instead.

My aging eyesight says no. 4k or bust for me.

Re: System76 Developing “Cosmic” Desktop Environment

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Post by rlonstein »

varispeed wrote: post #34

I wish they had a laptop with a latest and top AMD, 14" 4K IPS matte panel, programmers friendly keyboard (pg up/down home end on dedicated keys at least), expandable RAM and nvme drive, silent fans and metal chassis and a Linux support. Less important physical camera and wi-fi cut off switch. If there was an ARM chip with comparable performance to M1 I would consider it too if it was running Linux. After watching th…

I'd buy one but is there anyone selling an AMD Ryzen 5 or 7 laptop with a good panel and keyboard?

Re: System76 Developing “Cosmic” Desktop Environment

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Post by marmaduke »

ChefboyOG wrote: post #46
ohazi wrote: post #36

I've been hearing a surprising amount of positive feedback from people who have tried the current Gnome based DE on Pop OS. I haven't tried it myself, but I've heard that they have some sort of tiling / snapping that works well. I'd like to try it, but I'm heavily invested in upstream Debian and am not really interested in installing another Debian derivative. Are there plans to package this up? I'm currently using X…

I'm using it on a Surface Pro 3 that runs Pop OS and have nothing but positives to report. Additionally, it's by far the best tablet experience I've had not just on Linux, but period.

do you have any issues with sleep/suspend on the surface? I have a sp4 and had such issues even with Windows for the longest time.

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Post by [deleted] »

llarsson wrote: post #48
ekiwi wrote: post #32

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If you hit the Windows key on Gnome 3, you can type the name of a program, file or system setting and it will generally find it.

That's not it. Unity let you find at you typed to get to menu options. So you did not have to care whether the item you wanted was under File, Edit, or whatever, you could just start typing "preferences" and it would let you find it and go to it with the keyboard. That was pretty good, actually.

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Re: System76 Developing “Cosmic” Desktop Environment

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Post by silisili »

Nice to see! And glad they are...gasp...listening to people. The Gnome devs could learn a lot from that approach. The most popular distros all include a dock. And yet with Gnome 40, they not only refused to add a dock, they moved what gimped dock they had to the bottom of the screen. But you can't see it until you hit the top left corner. I wish I was making that up. (keyboard shortcuts aside, in fairness)

Rant aside, I'll definitely give it this a go. PopOS is a really nice distro.

Re: System76 Developing “Cosmic” Desktop Environment

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Post by rubyist5eva »

bmurphy1976 wrote: post #55
kaibee wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Drop the 4K IPS for a 2560x1440 panel instead.

My aging eyesight says no. 4k or bust for me.

at 14" is the difference even distinguishable? I can barely tell the difference between 1080p and retina on screens that small
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