Cosmic DE

Sadly Nvidia have no interest in supporting Wayland on card before the 1650ti, an Ubuntu dev has submitted a patch to try and push it back to the maxwell series which would include the 750ti.
 
It's clearly still and Alpha but it does look quite nice. It's very "Gnomey" out of the box and I'm not a really a fan of Gnome but I'm sure it will be more customisable when it's ready.
 
Apparently they have been working on Xwayland support, so things might not be as bad as i first thought, being wayland only.
 
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Just installed alpha 6 on fedora and got it how I want it. I'm easily pleased so the customisation seems good enough, mostly trying to minimise things to look clean and maximise screen real estate used by actual programs. The dock can be disabled, windows can be snapped easily to half or a quarter of the screen (for gnome you need to mess about with extensions to do that). The only thing I haven't been able to do that I would like to is put the battery % number in the top bar instead of just a vague status icon. And the tiling mode seems a little jank, but that may be because I switched to it with a load of floating windows open so it crossed the streams so to speak. It's a 4 finger swipe to switch workspaces (compared to 3 on gnome).

The way it handles quarter window snapping alone makes it better for me than gnome. I'm now playing with some of the cosmic utilities and they seem fine, the terminal emulator is the most important one and that works well, the text editor has line numbering and syntax highlighting so that's also great.

Didn't think it would be there yet being alpha, but it's so impressive I'm actually switching to it immediately on my daily driver.
 
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