Cosmic — Alpha 6
I’ve been using System76’s “Cosmic-DE” for the past 10 days. It’s still being worked on (Alpha 6).
I have made the decision to transition from Arch Linux with DWM (Xorg — X11) to the Fedora Spin with Cosmic-DE. Since it’s a beta spin, it uses the Fedora 42 beta. I wanted to see how far along Wayland was for everyday use.
Things have been pretty good for me so far! Cosmic is already coming along very well, and I think it’s ready to be used every day. I have to say that I LOVE my DWM system—it’s so easy to use, so quick, and just great (though not perfect because it’s a bit old since it uses Xorg). So, overall, I’m really impressed with this desktop environment.
I love how easy it is to customize (compared to my defaults—changing the source code itself), how many features are available (adaptable windows, a great app launcher, and more), and how the ecosystem of apps is growing. Also, I think it’s really cool that all of my GTK apps use the system color scheme that was set up in the cosmic-settings.
Additionally, Fedora 42 is exceedingly stable; the official release is anticipated in mere days. Any version of Fedora is great for me because it is stable, yet the kernel is updated all the time.
I can’t wait to see Cosmic-DE version 1.0! This new setup will stay in place for now.