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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.

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AMD GPUs are cursed for me

Each time I try AMD graphics, something is fucked for me. Back with fglrx, fglrx just sucked, so I used Nvidia. Then I had an AMD right around when they finally had opensource drivers, but it was still buggy as hell. So I went with Nvidia again (first a GTX 790, then a GTX 1060). In the meantime I had a new work notebook where I...

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Try out COSMIC with the NVIDIA 550 beta driver.

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Then have fun with your bad experience. NVIDIA is working quite well in Wayland on COSMIC.

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What makes you think I'm "salty"? I'm not the one complaining about NVIDIA not working in Wayland, or saying that I'm going to sell my GPU.

The only person who is salty is the one who would rather sell their GPU than use a Wayland desktop environment that supports NVIDIA as a first class citizen.

GNOME Sees Progress On Variable Refresh Rate Setting, Adding Battery Charge Control ( www.phoronix.com )

As pointed out in This Week in GNOME, there's been some continued work on Variable Rate Refresh for the GNOME desktop. The VRR setting within GNOME Settings continues to be iterated on as the developers iron out how they'd like to present the Variable Rate Refresh setting for users. The developers have been discussing how to...

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It already supports VRR and DRM leasing. VRR monitors and VR headsets have been tested.

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It wouldn't be possible for us to build a platform toolkit, or the COSMIC platform itself, without a text editor or terminal. It would also be deeply embarrassing if we release our desktop without them. Imagine telling people they need to switch to a TTY or use a software center to install a plain text editor or terminal. It is thanks to the text editor project that we have first class text rendering across the Rust GUI ecosystem now. Without it, we wouldn't have been achieve proper bidrectional text rendering or ligatures. The text editor project also made the terminal possible, and now any application that we develop in the future can have proper text editing widgets and embedded terminals.

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Because that's not how software development works, and that's not how you make progress in the field. In order for our technical vision to be integrated with an existing desktop, such as GNOME, it would have required that they give us the reigns to their project to delete their entire codebase and rebuild it into exactly what you see today in COSMIC.

As in life, sometimes you've got to demolish, pave, and build better foundations. There's a lot of cool technologies available to build a truly next-generation desktop experience in, but you're not going to get it through rigid bureaucracy and old tools. With COSMIC, we've got freedom to make decisions and build something truly unique, and we're using our talent to show you what we can do.

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Translation: no one should ever attempt to innovate on the Linux desktop. GNOME is the epitome of software development and everyone else should quietly give up. If GNOME can't fix an issue, no one can. Only GNOME has the god-given right to make decisions on how desktops are developed for Linux. There can only be one party. The One Desktop principle. Contribute to your party leader, or else...

In-progress COSMIC apps: terminal, file manager, text editor, and settings ( fosstodon.org )

COSMIC is a Wayland desktop environment for Linux that is written in Rust with Smithay and Iced. COSMIC applications are developed with the libcosmic platform toolkit, which is based on iced. They are cross-platform and supported on Windows, Mac, and Redox OS in addition to Linux....

COSMIC applications in dark mode, with cosmic-term in the top left, cosmic-files in the top right, cosmic-edit in the bottom left, and cosmic-settings in the bottom right
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