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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ndlug.org/post/1167059

COSMIC’s Alpha 2 release builds upon that work with functionality built out for Files, additional Settings pages, considerable infrastructure work for screen reader support+, and some highly requested window management features. System76 is ecstatic at the level of excitement and collaboration so far with alpha testers and early app & applet developers, and we look forward to seeing what comes from these new additions.

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The second COSMIC alpha will be released on September 26th. Those participating in Alpha 1 on Pop!_OS can simply update through the COSMIC App Store to transition. This alpha will be followed by monthly alpha releases until all core features have been built out.

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  • Everett@reddthat.comEnglish
    15·
    2 months ago

    So far, I’m really impressed with how COSMIC is turning out. Depending on your use case, it might not be ready for daily driving, but it works perfectly for my needs. Its especially impressive as an Alpha, because it freezes up a lot less on me compared to KDE.

  • yogurtwrong@lemmy.world
    11·
    2 months ago

    Don’t get me wrong, I like this but why am I feeling like this would be a consistency nightmare for GTK and QT apps

    • priapus@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      23·
      2 months ago

      Isn’t that already true for QT apps on a gtk desktop and GTK apps on a QT desktop?

      In my experience, GTK apps feel pretty good on Cosmic, and it has support for automatically theming them with your Cosmic theme. QT apps feel out of place, but this is an issue I’ve had on every non-Plasma desktop, because I struggle to get theming to work.

      • Leaflet@lemmy.worldEnglish
        9·
        2 months ago

        It’s kinda ironic that theming GTK is easier when it doesn’t officially support theming. Especially when it comes to Qt flatpak apps.

  • kittenzrulz123
    7·
    2 months ago

    I tried Alpha 1 and it was completely unusable for me (granted I use a tri monitor setup), hopefully this offers an improvement (I will update if it works).

    (Edit: it somehow works even worse, now it wont even launch)

      • kittenzrulz123
        6·
        2 months ago

        Yeah and I acknowledged that my use case is extremely niche and opens me up to a significant amount of bugs, at the same time I still tried it out because I felt like it. In addition im testing this outside of Pop_OS and on a non Debian based system (Artix).

    • sunzu2@thebrainbin.org
      3·
      2 months ago

      i tried to daily drive it… but it could not handle having all my normal shit open with out blinking etc, games would not play.

      going to give it another try. high hopes for cosmic!

  • QuizzaciousOtter@lemm.ee
    5·
    2 months ago

    Commenting mostly to make this post more active because I have very high hopes for COSMIC and really want it to succeed!