Other COSMIC

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COSMIC is a DE created by System76, an American hardware manufacturer that also ships its own Linux distribution, called POP-OS. I think their desktop is very interesting and maybe it could be the real answer for FreeBSD people not liking neither KDE nor GNOME.

YT fed me with this video that I actually found pretty interesting.


Hopefully when they reach the beta stage someone here will port the code to FreeBSD.
 
Linux Unplugged interviewed the System76 developers of Cosmic (at 12 minute mark: https://linuxunplugged.com/636 )

It was really interesting to hear their motivations. They explicitly said they are keeping the requirements minimal -not depending on systemd specifically - to make it easier to port to other platforms, "including the BSDs." From the readme, the requirements apparently are:
  • just
  • rustc
  • libwayland
  • mesa (or third-party libEGL/libGL implementations, though interfacing with mesa's libglvnd is generally recommended).
  • libseat
  • libxkbcommon
  • libinput
  • udev
  • dbus

(optional):
  • libsystem
  • libpulse
  • pop-launcher
  • libexpat1
  • libfontconfig
  • libfreetype
  • lld
  • cargo
  • libgbm-dev
  • libclang-dev
  • libpipewire-0.3-dev

I tried it with the PopOs live usb and it's really, really nice.
 
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