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It's based on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, with their own DE
by jsk2600 9mo ago
It's based on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, with their own DE
- dsego 9mo agoDoes it use snap packages?
- cguess 9mo agoyes
- akdor1154 9mo agoThey attempt to avoid them, though snaps are still available if you wish. Flatpak is installed by default and used by their app store, and Firefox is packaged as a deb so you can avoid the snap. I consider it a deshittified Ubuntu.
- KronisLV 9mo ago> I consider it a deshittified Ubuntu. This is more or less what I have used Linux Mint for (their Cinnamon desktop version is pretty okay, also used the XFCE one). Nice to have more options!
- panick21_ 9mo agoThey are vendor of hardware, so much more aggressive about pushing new hardware support.
- criddell 9mo agoBased on Ubuntu? So is it basically Ubuntu with Gnome removed and COSMIC added? How compatible are the two OS's? They show icons for Steam, Chrome, Firefox, Zoom, etc... Does that mean they are maintaining their own fork of those applications built for COSMIC?
- mghackerlady 9mo agoNo? They can run on cosmic, just like they can run on any other desktop. It's a linux distro, it does linux distro things and happens to be built on ubuntu. What part of this are you not getting? Remember when Ubuntu made Unity because they were pissed at the GNOME people? That's what System76 did, they got mad at GNOME because GNOME didn't like how much they were messing with GNOME
- criddell 9mo agoI'm not super familiar with the history of GNOME, KDE, or COSMIC and I've never used COSMIC and I haven't been able to see into their app store to see what apps are available. The version of Chrome (for example) that Google distributes uses GTK which is GNOME, no? So I was wondering if System76 forked that and made a version that uses the COSMIC API.
- jsk2600 9mo agoYou do not need to have GNOME in order to run GTK apps - Pop_OS ships with GTK/QT libraries so all apps works as on Ubuntu.
- criddell 9mo agoWho wants to run multiple widget sets though? You lose any semblance of your system having a native look and feel.
- lillecarl 9mo agoI want to run applications written with both Qt and GTK. I do not care much about "look and feel"
- criddell 9mo agoYou say that, but you probably do care at least a little. It benefits you when an application doesn't do surprising things. Even basic things like clicking in an edit control, it's better for you if that results in the same outcome across all apps (stuff like does it select all text? does it place the caret at the end?). Even for command line apps, consistency is good (see https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/V1_chap12.html https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/V1...). Are options specified with a hyphen? Two hyphens? A slash? Are lists delimited with comma or semi-colon or something else?