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I'm excited for Cosmic Desktop (lemmy.ca)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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From what I saw Cosmic has a lot of potential and looks pretty sleek too, right now I'm using KDE it's a great desktop, but now that I have a second monitor it randomly crashes on me, I think I'll switch to Cosmic when it reaches beta.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I'm just afraid it's gonna be another 2 years before it's ready for everyday use

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

2 years is nothing to a Linux user lol