Yes I encountered that when I used Tumbleweed on my laptop, the solution was to run “sudo prime-select boot offload”. It set up my laptop to use iGPU for desktop environment and NV offload for gaming. I made it part of my update script. No idea why that wasn’t handled better.
But generally I’m done with rolling distros, I now use an Ubuntu derivative that still keeps kernel and mesa quite up to date, I enjoy a stable environment.
Did they think nobody would notice?
Very unlikely, they’re doing it openly and they know from experience that all changes are always immediately reported in the community. They operate this way by choice.
Are they going back to the bad old habit of removing features just for the sake of removing features?
Doubt it, DNT is not only useless it is misleading as the user may think it is effective while in reality it allows “better” fingerprinting.
Did the fact that so many of their users have that flag set interfere with their ad tracking ambitions?
Source? I thought reports had usually been that it saw extremely low adoption on the client but maybe I’m wrong. Best rates I could find was <9% on desktop and 19% on mobile but that’s back when it was most talked about.
I don’t believe there are plans for a start menu, it’s not how they envision the desktop. However anyone is welcome to cook their own, like this project.
I believe the team is focused on Flatpak. There’s a community project adding some AppImage functionality.
For feature requests you can search/raise issues on the COSMIC GitHub repositories.
Yeah, my squad was maphopping in WvW and got a new Elon Gnashblade mail for each map change. Quickly filled up the mailbox.
It’s a temporary thing and it’s likly Kent will just spend the time too continue development and prepare patches for next cycle instead. The ambition is to take it out of Experimental status sometime in the next year so there’s at least motivation to figure out these things. During the delay testers of this FS can still submit bug reports.
It is default XWayland and will only fallback to Wayland if no XWayland found.
It has replaced idly making selection squares on the desktop.
Various projects. With C I wrote drivers and networking stacks for embedded systems, with C++ I worked for years on a the networking layers of a now long gone smartphone OS. With Rust I’ve been doing hobby projects like a library+application (win/linux/macos) for controlling WeMo switches on the LAN. Most recent is a Memory+CPU usage monitoring applet for the nascent COSMIC desktop environment.
I started with Slackware in the late nineties. Have been through Redhat, Suse, Ubuntu, Arch, Tumbleweed. These days I just can’t be bothered, I just want to game and code and I prefer an out of the box well configured Ubuntu derivative, they also upgrade easily and have lots of application compatibility - mostly everyone provides .deb packages. I could also choose Fedora for these reasons.
So now on Pop!_OS 24.04. Pop is has a stable/lts base but still gets Mesa/Nvidia/Kernel updates on a regular basis. I use it mainly for gaming and Rust dev, writing some COSMIC applets as well.
COSMIC Alpha does still have problems with some games but not the games I play.
Yeah, GuildWars2, Valheim, Pathfinder WotR, etc. those sort of games… So I’m a bit niche, some gamers have more issues than I.
I got a gnome-session installed for games that have problems with COSMIC but fortunately haven’t needed it for a while now.
I started with Slackware in the nineties, have been through Redhat, Suse, Ubuntu, Arch, Tumbleweed.
I could use anything really but these days my focus have moved; I kinda just want functional and well configured up front. Using Pop!_OS 24 alpha on my gaming/dev laptop, it works well/is well put together and I’m having fun writing COSMIC apps. I’m using Ubuntu on a few servers, I picked it many years ago and they’ve been through a number of painless upgrades.
GIMP 3.0 makes it a lot easier for devs to add functionality and they’re starting a UX working group.
But I find it usable, I’ve been using it weekly for a very long time. I’m happy to see development picking up though with more people joining.
It’s certainly safer though one can probably still do some damage in /etc, if determined.
There are some other differences, for example Pop!_OS while on a LTS base still gets regular updates of kernel, Mesa and Nvidia drivers which is nice.
I believe the EU redirected open source funding to LLM/“AI”. Germany’s Sovereign Tech Fund on the other hand had its budget increased.
You always have to consider the sources of such whispers, otherwise it means very little. The devs, who are few and works on evenings because they have day jobs, a well-know open source issue for many projects, were clear about when they started in earnest on getting 3.0 done, less than 3 years ago. Until then they’ve spent most of their time adding features to 2.10 and the 2.9 branch was more of a long lived testing ground with occational test releases that cause talk sometimes. The aim was RC primo or medio this year, they’re only slightly late.
But I get the feeling more devs are starting to contribute now it’s near 3.0, maybe because the new architecture actually makes it easier. So there’s hope a lot will start to happen. There’s even a UI working group.
I’m running the 2.9 nightly, it’s better in a multitude of little ways as well as having a number of new features.
Somewhere, I think it was here Carl mentions it might be early next year as he doesn’t want to pressure devs over Christmas.
I think they’ll release an Alpha update monthly until Beta.
Same, I’ve done C and C++ for several decades and I’ve spent too much time of that hunting obscure memory issus triggered by rare race conditions. No matter how hard we try to use safe patterns we are all too human. The most experienced C++ devs I know are the first to admit this.
In Rust once it compiles much less time is spent debugging and a whole big category of bugs are gone from the production code.
And C++ aient pretty but maybe that’s subjective.
Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Computer Networks, 3rd ed., p. 83.
I always end up with SF Pro Display for my desktop. For terminal I’m happy with several mentioned here.