Beyond the dazzling sea of licensed fireworks and thunderclouds lies a cosmic array of ancient stars. It’s within our gaze upon these stars where we find the inspiration for COSMIC DE, our new desktop environment created for Pop!_OS and other Linux distros. Let’s get into the updates!
COSMIC DE is System76’s in-progress Rust-based desktop environment. System76 has done some neat tricks while resizing windows in tiled mode, they’re splitting up the notifications subsystems into separate threads, they added fractional scaling, and more.
Most impressive is that it shows an overlay of the keyboard shortcuts needed to adjust while in tiling mode.
This removes a barrier to entry for tiling that is off-putting for a majority of users.
I applaud Pop!_OS for making tiling easy to use. In its current form, the modified Gnome desktop has made tiling so intuitive that my non-tech wife uses it all the time.
I hope that when Cosmic DE is final, it isn’t tied to one specific distribution.