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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (5 children)

This might be what I was looking for all along in a window manager. For the longest time, I've been dissatisfied with the drawbacks of both floating and tiling WMs, but hopefully this can deliver the best of both worlds.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Cuz my mouth and throat feel disgusting in the morning. Eating or drinking right after brushing doesn't bother me either.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Good. I can't think of the curved screen as anything other than a nuisance.

[–] [email protected] 85 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Actually, it's just "The X-Files" now.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

I'm really liking the great leaps in improvements and bugfixes!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I just use GNOME with a few extensions. Works fairly well for me.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Doesn't look good enough to be a proper Avatar adaptation. Everything looks too stiff and the animations are weird. The fire effects look less like fire and more like red/orange blobs.

The backgrounds and town architecture look nice, I guess. Assuming you look at them from a distance.

I'll wait until the reviews come out before I make a final judgment on the game, but I don't exactly have high hopes from what I've seen.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

And the GNOME project doesn't just use C/C++ right? It uses Javascript for developing all sorts of components and Python for scripting/misc utilties. That's what I meant by more memory-efficient.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (5 children)

You know, I've always read that COBOL projects still get maintained to this day because the costs of rewriting these projects just are too high. I wonder if there's a cutoff point where maintaining them starts costing more than the rewrite. I just don't see how organizations can justify maintaining these projects without these kind of changes forever.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (8 children)

I'm incredibly interested in COSMIC DE! For multiple different reasons, actually.

  1. Rust - I'm very interested to see how performant/memory-efficient this DE will be compared with other DEs. Also, I wonder how the Iced toolkit will evolve and be adopted in other projects.
  2. Benefits over GNOME - I'm looking forward to seeing how much out-of-box customizability and features come with COSMIC over GNOME (which I'm currently using).
  3. Maintainability going forward - Since the DE basically started from scratch and is using a much better language for robust software, I wonder how much easier and faster it would be to maintain the desktop environment. This potential improved maintainability could be huge in overtaking other DEs sometime soon.
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah that makes sense. I guess I'm just a little surprised that I haven't seen any official announcement from Infinity yet.

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