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Here's our family of COSMIC desktop applications in dark and light mode. While there is still a lot of work to do, the foundations are strong!
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.
As COSMIC nears its alpha release in Q1 of 2024, we have thus far developed a terminal, file manager, and text editor for our desktop environment within the last few months.
Me: Can we have COSMIC?
Mom: We have COSMIC at home.
COSMIC at home: Attempting to call back into JSAPI during the sweeping phase of GC. Stack trace for context
Joking aside, COSMIC is nothing like GNOME. Not visually, not feature-wise, nor is it using the same software stack. It is as close to GNOME as KDE is to GNOME. Developed from the ground up in Rust.
Gnome is heavy to use, and buggy, lots of people like the design of gnome, but not the perf hit. It will be nice to use apps that both don't suck, and fit our general aesthetic
Michael probably can't say it, but there's a lot of people out there looking for "just" Gnome without it's original developers. For illustration you may simply google "gnome devs" and read the titles popping up. That said, lots of drama and not the most worthwhile usage of your time.