I have tried #Plasma6 on my #Fedora laptop. Seems all great, but I reverted back to #GNOME. I prefer the simplicity of GNOME. Yes, you can keep Plasma simple as well, but I am too tempted to tinker with all the possibilities there. Looking forward to try out #COSMIC deskop one day, though. But GNOME has been my daily driver (on my personal laptop) for more than ten years and I keep it pretty much in its vanilla config. Most of my work is done in the terminal anyway.
Quite enjoying Ubuntu Budgie. Seems to be a little lighter than stock Ubuntu and with fewer issues? I don't know. I did a full install instead of upgrading in place. Luckily the laptop doesn't hold a lot of files.
When @system76's upcoming #COSMIC desktop is released and stable, it's going to be a dangerous gateway drug to tiling window managers -- most of the tiling features plus fairly intuitive and mouse-usable (until you learn the keybinds ;)
Nothing against Pop, but I'd probably wait until they come out with an update. I'm not sure if they're upgrading it to 24.04 or just holding off until the new #COSMIC is ready.
Rome wasn't built in a day. I'll wait to try it out when it's ready ;)
But the current gnome-based Cosmic shell is also pretty good, and has a lot of the same features.
I just installed COSMIC Desktop on Fedora 40. It works smoothly and is very fast. All apps open instantly with no glitches or hangs, and everything functions perfectly. Well Done, COSMIC team. #cosmic#desktop#fedora40#system76
Just for fun I abused our infra to put together a boot-able #COSMIC#Desktop live image. It features the latest cosmic-epoch-git release (2 days old). This image should boot into LightDM and from there you can login to live with a single click. The OS is #MocaccinoOS#Linux that is build with #Gentoo stable. If required, root password is "mocaccino". (I would not recommend installing this! Just peek around in the live environment) Have fun!
Just a summary of who I am, my name is Ryan, and I work on various Linux projects in my free time. Most notably I’ve been contributing independently to the #cosmic desktop environment, as well as managing the #fedora COSMIC SIG.