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COSMIC DE: The Road to Alpha (blog.system76.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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If all goes well, we can release the alpha by the end of March

Now Available on NixOS!

COSMIC Terminal joins a long list of COSMIC DE projects that have been packaged for NixOS! While COSMIC DE will be the flagship desktop for Pop!_OS, it's designed and architected for distros to build their own custom, branded user experiences. Details for distro packaging will be released at the same time as the alpha.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

It wouldn't be possible for us to build a platform toolkit, or the COSMIC platform itself, without a text editor or terminal. It would also be deeply embarrassing if we release our desktop without them. Imagine telling people they need to switch to a TTY or use a software center to install a plain text editor or terminal. It is thanks to the text editor project that we have first class text rendering across the Rust GUI ecosystem now. Without it, we wouldn't have been achieve proper bidrectional text rendering or ligatures. The text editor project also made the terminal possible, and now any application that we develop in the future can have proper text editing widgets and embedded terminals.