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Michael Murphy (S76)

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I'm a System76 engineer / Pop!_OS maintainer. I've been a Linux user since 2007; and Rust since 2015. I'm currently working on COSMIC-related projects.

  • One more time, simple keybinding in Cosmic

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  • You have to type the key sym name into the input field. It is not a raw shortcut editor yet.

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  • You are already on the LTS version if you've installed the COSMIC Alpha 6 ISO, or did a release upgrade.

  • How to run different DE along with cosmic

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  • You can choose a session in cosmic-greeter through a dropdown.

  • Pop!_OS (Linux) @lemmy.world
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    Jack Wallen—Linux 101: A COSMIC Prediction

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    Rust is the New C

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  • You don't have to watch. You can listen to it in the background.

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    COSMIC at SCaLE 22x

  • rm'd a project that was months in the making a few days before launch... What to do if you kill the wrong file without a backup

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  • It's really easy to configure a self-hosted forgejo instance. Even if you rm your local work, you can clone it from your server. Be that hosted on the same system over localhost, or on another system in your network.

  • COSMIC Alpha 6: Big Leaps Forward

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  • 3D acceleration is required with cosmic-comp right now. I'm not sure if software rendering will be ready or not for the first release, but it is on the issue board.

  • Cosmic Desktop - A Review of the Latest Alpha 6

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  • There's already been explanations in every thread on COSMIC for the last 2 years. Along with a dozen interviews and conference talks. Why are you demanding answers here?

  • Cosmic Desktop - A Review of the Latest Alpha 6

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  • See the Ubuntu Summit 2024 talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwrBKccfYws

    It’s not resources, in fact, this Alpha performs pretty poorly on its own vs Gnome

    I haven't seen any benchmark where GNOME was more performant than COSMIC. Despite alpha status, it is already much more responsive than GNOME.

    GNOME uses a single thread to render all displays in a multi-display configuration. This is often so slow that they need to rely on double or even triple buffering when the frame rate lags behind the display's refresh rate. Meanwhile in COSMIC, thanks to the thread safety features of Rust, it was easy to implement thread-per-display multi-threaded rendering. This means that each display is rendered and composited independently on their own respective threads.

    GNOME's compositor also has an entire JavaScript runtime bundled inside of it, which it uses for drawing interfaces and handling application logic for those interfaces. All within the same process as the compositor, slowing down its event loop. COSMIC instead keeps the compositor process very lean, with all desktop interfaces running in their own isolated processes outside of the compositor via wayland's layer-shell protocol.

  • Cosmic Desktop - A Review of the Latest Alpha 6

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  • If you can't see the difference, it's because you're not even looking.

  • Cosmic Desktop - A Review of the Latest Alpha 6

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  • It can't be fixed without forking and rewriting a lot of gnome-shell's internal logic.

    Also, COSMIC is not a rewrite of GNOME. Not even close. It is a completely different architecture, toolkit, language, and design system.

  • Cosmic Desktop - A Review of the Latest Alpha 6

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  • COSMIC Alpha 6: Big Leaps Forward

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  • Doesn't matter. New compositor: cosmic-comp. Does not share any code with gnome-shell or mutter.

  • COSMIC Alpha 6: Big Leaps Forward

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  • OpenGL is required, even if by software rendering.

  • System76 Releases COSMIC Alpha 6 Desktop Environment

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  • No modifications are being done to Qt/KDE theming, and we won't be able to get KDE apps to adapt to the COSMIC theme until the KDE ecosystem has finished migrations to the Union theme engine.

  • System76 Releases COSMIC Alpha 6 Desktop Environment

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  • I don't know how you can keep telling me that I never contacted Canonical even though I did. Nor did anyone ever publicly mock Canonical. You are putting words in our mouths. So much contradictory and hyperbolic nonsense here. Let me guess: you read a certain hyperbolic hit piece from a Chris Davis—one of the most prominent libadwaita and stopthemingmyapp developers—whom had a personal axe to grind with us because of many heated online arguments with him over the petition, theming, and libadwaita. He created a hit piece to influence public perception of the company and intentionally used the GNOME blog to reach the widest audience for his vendetta. Even though if you dig through the details his statements are weak, if not outright false. To make matters worse, GNOME never addressed that personal blog post hosted on their website, even though we had been sponsoring and sometimes hosting GNOME events for 5 years prior, and donated a total of $100K. Leading many to conclude that this was the voice of GNOME, even if internally it was not. This is what happens if you only read the story from one side without putting equal weight on the other.

  • COSMIC Alpha 6: Big Leaps Forward

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  • You can't release a desktop operating system without a file manager or text editor. The xdg desktop portal interface for the file chooser portal dialogs requires a file manager to be implemented for the portal to be able to create a file chooser dialog for the operating system on behalf of applications requested file choosers through the portal.

    The text editor is also required to have a GUI toolkit featuring properly rendered and editable text. It is thanks to the text editor project that the Rust ecosystem now has cosmic-text as the de facto crate for handling text layout, shaping, and rendering with support for international language glyps, ligatured language scripts, and bidirectional text layouts.

  • COSMIC Alpha 6: Big Leaps Forward

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  • Virtual machines have always been supported as long as you enable GPU acceleration. GNOME Boxes, virt-manager, and VirtualBox have been tested.

  • COSMIC Alpha 6: Big Leaps Forward

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  • The alpha began in August of last year, and will continue to be classified as alpha until all features are finished.

  • COSMIC Alpha 6: Big Leaps Forward

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  • The alpha began in August of last year, and will continue to be classified as alpha until all features are finished.

  • Linux @lemmy.world
    Michael Murphy (S76) @lemmy.world

    COSMIC Alpha 6: Big Leaps Forward

    blog.system76.com /post/cosmic-alpha-6-big-leaps-forward
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    Michael Murphy (S76) @lemmy.world

    COSMIC Alpha 6: Big Leaps Forward

    blog.system76.com /post/cosmic-alpha-6-big-leaps-forward
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    COSMIC Utilities Organization

    github.com /cosmic-utils
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    Michael Murphy (S76) @lemmy.world

    COSMIC Alpha 6: Big Leaps Forward

    blog.system76.com /post/cosmic-alpha-6-big-leaps-forward
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    Hyprland's Developer Is Not A Fan Of COSMIC Desktop

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    Michael Murphy (S76) @lemmy.world

    FLOSS Weekly: Building the Rust Desktop with COSMIC

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    Michael Murphy (S76) @lemmy.world

    Merging Dock with Panel | Ft Cosmic

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    A Week in Cosmic on BARE METAL!

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    A Blog to Satisfy Your Monthly COSMIC Fix(es)

    blog.system76.com /post/your-monthly-cosmic-fix
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    Michael Murphy (S76) @lemmy.world

    A Blog to Satisfy Your Monthly COSMIC Fix(es)

    blog.system76.com /post/your-monthly-cosmic-fix
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    Michael Murphy (S76) @lemmy.world

    LinuxFest Northwest 2024: Meet COSMIC DE

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    Michael Murphy (S76) @lemmy.world

    LinuxFest Northwest 2024: Meet COSMIC DE

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    April Tools: Hammering out new COSMIC Features

    blog.system76.com /post/hammering-out-cosmic-features
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    Michael Murphy (S76) @lemmy.world

    COSMIC alpha updates — March 28

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    COSMIC now supports theming GTK3/4 applications

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    COSMUnity

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    COSMUnity

  • Pop!_OS (Linux) @lemmy.world
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    Pop!_OS spotted in the control room of the Large Hadron Collider

    www.reddit.com /r/pop_os/comments/1bf0w2t/after_being_a_valid_companion_through_the/