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[–] rozodru@piefed.social 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

eh I'm going to take a wait and see approach.

The early alpha versions of COSMIC I really liked but over time with each new Alpha release it just felt...off? like kinda leaning into GNOME "please don't actually customize me" territory? and there were a couple keybinds that just weren't there. also it felt like it was getting slower with each release.

That being said I think if you just want a very simple DE with the option of good tiling then COSMIC is the way to go. It's been awhile since I tried one of the previous alphas so if his release really is the shit then I might consider switching my WM to it.

[–] swelter_spark@reddthat.com 3 points 23 hours ago

This puts into words the nameless feeling I had while using it. If OpenSUSE eliminates support for x11 before XFCE's Wayland is 100%, I might still use it full time, though.

[–] cygnus@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The tiling feature is killer, I really wish KDE had something imilar that can be easily toggled on and off.

[–] swab148@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] cygnus@lemmy.ca 1 points 15 hours ago

Tried it - it works, but isn't toggleable like the PopOS tiling which has a taskbar button and a hotkey.