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System76 Developing “Cosmic” Desktop Environment

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Re: System76 Developing “Cosmic” Desktop Environment

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Post by mushufasa »

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…

Since they resell Clevo designs, they'll definitely offer such a laptop but it may take them a few more months to have one available.

They seem to be several months behind new hardware launches, which as I understand is partially because their value-add is rigorous testing and hardware support for linux. They will often patch or back port the newest kernel for the latest drivers.

Re: System76 Developing “Cosmic” Desktop Environment

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Post by rbreaves »

Andrew_nenakhov wrote: post #15

When Ubuntu dropped the hammer on Gnome2, I saw Unity desktop and was kinda... ewwww. And next I have installed Gnome 3. After 15 minutes with it I decided that Unity is actually not that bad , so I switched to it. In the following years Unity kinda grew on me, so I'm sad that it was axed and now everyone use this Gnome3 abomination. It is not as bad as it was five years before, but loss of top menu and general prefe…

First off.. this is not an official release (kairos) like my Kinto project, but you can install https://ubuntubudgie.org and use their global menu or run my script which will fully configure everyone w/ my Kinto project and other various fixes.

You will have a modern desktop with a global menu.

https://github.com/rbreaves/kairos

Re: System76 Developing “Cosmic” Desktop Environment

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Post by mjcohen »

Tsiklon wrote: post #86
aidenn0 wrote: post #51

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

MacOS sort of supports it - the help menu for each app has a search box CMD+Shift+/ (or CMD+? If you prefer to think of it like that) will open it up. Each of the menu bar options should be searchable, and the search box will open the requisite menu to the correct branch/leaf and highlight it for you.

I didn't know that. Thanks.

Re: System76 Developing “Cosmic” Desktop Environment

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Post by mixmastamyk »

silisili wrote: post #59

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…

No dock thanks. But I like the menu to open on corner and super key.

Re: System76 Developing “Cosmic” Desktop Environment

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Post by scoopertrooper »

toolz wrote: post #155
arnaudsm wrote: post #118

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The M1 and 5850U are in the same laptop price range. But I agree on the single-thread, it's indeed 12% faster.

I recently bought a lenovo ideapad (ultrabook form factor) for under $900USD with a 5700u 16GB ram 512 nvme https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/Apple-M1-8-Core-3200-MH... I'd say AMD is really blowing the M1 laptops out of the water at half the price and more performance.

Keep in mind only four of those cores on the M1 mac are performance cores. A M1 Mac with 8 performance cores would blow that thing out of the water based on how close they already are.

Re: System76 Developing “Cosmic” Desktop Environment

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Post by mixmastamyk »

Wxc2jjJmST9XWWL wrote: post #180
dsego wrote: post #179

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> Though for me, as long as Canonical doesn't screw it up in a major way, stock Ubuntu it is. It's not like they're not trying, with snaps and all... we shall see.

I guess what constitutes a "major screw up" can be debated. I don't have a problem with snaps.

The basic idea is fine, but the obnoxious gnome-esque, "we don't care about convention or your preferences" is the main problem.

Re: System76 Developing “Cosmic” Desktop Environment

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Post by commoner »

pkulak wrote: post #172
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…

They need to make their own laptop. Then it's an instant buy from me. But right now everything is 1080p, plastic, with no USB-C charging. Bleh.

System76 is working on laptops designed in-house. It's a work in progress.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2019/11/20/syste...

You can offer suggestions for their laptop manufacturing project here:

https://github.com/system76/laptop-suggestions

Re: System76 Developing “Cosmic” Desktop Environment

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Post by [deleted] »

type0 wrote: post #190
thepangolino wrote: post #26

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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?

Not for GNOME 3 but MATE has a Heads-Up Display https://github.com/ubuntu-mate/mate-hud

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Re: System76 Developing “Cosmic” Desktop Environment

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Post by ChefboyOG »

marmaduke wrote: post #57
ChefboyOG wrote: post #46

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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.

None that I've noticed. There was a small issue with wifi dropping intermittently, but a small tweak fixed that as well. I regularly lock the screen for long periods without issue.

Really, I'm not a Linux power user who is happy to hack for hours to make audio work. It's amazing the degree to which this just worked out of the box

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