One thing that I love about Cosmic is that it is made in Rust and is licensed under GPL. This is contrast to the replacement of the coreutils with new, Rust made, which are unfortunately licensed under MIT. Ubuntu rushed to adopt them. One more case of foul play by them after making the server side of snap proprietary.
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This is great but it would have to be pretty terrific to get me to replace Plasma.
It's shaping up to be pretty good at least. It's pretty good for being in alpha state still.
The main thing it needs to beat for me is Kwin's excellent Wayland support. Everything just works.
The per-screen workspaces are appealing though.
Coming together nicely!
I wonder if I will stay on sway after cosmic releases
I desperately want a smithay based hyprland clone... hyprland is just so unbelievably good, shame about the dev.
Not sure I could stop using a tiling window manager now