They hired me. That was in 1996 and I still work for them today.
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Wrong, collective action doesn’t change anything. It simply interchanges who gets poorer.
But sometimes that's the goal.
In professional sports, the player's union helps raise athlete salaries and improve working conditions and that does ultimately come out of the owner's pockets.
criddell commented on Pop_OS 24.04 LTS with COSMIC desktop environment blog.system76.com/post/po... · Posted by u/onnnon
I want to run applications written with both Qt and GTK.
I do not care much about "look and feel"
You 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...). Are options specified with a hyphen? Two hyphens? A slash? Are lists delimited with comma or semi-colon or something else?
criddell commented on Pop_OS 24.04 LTS with COSMIC desktop environment blog.system76.com/post/po... · Posted by u/onnnon
criddell commented on Pop_OS 24.04 LTS with COSMIC desktop environment blog.system76.com/post/po... · Posted by u/onnnon
No? 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
I'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.
criddell commented on Pop_OS 24.04 LTS with COSMIC desktop environment blog.system76.com/post/po... · Posted by u/onnnon
I was introduced to UNIX in 1993, Linux in 1995's Summmer, and have lost count how many X Windows desktops or windows managers have come and gone in 32 years.
What's been your favorite?
I wasted too much time tweaking Enlightenment. I remember that was fun but I don't really remember much about actually using it.
OS/2's Workplace Shell feels like the biggest lost opportunity (and has nothing to do with UNIXy stuff). I really liked Rexx and the SOM stuff felt cleaner than what became COM in Windows.
criddell commented on Pop_OS 24.04 LTS with COSMIC desktop environment blog.system76.com/post/po... · Posted by u/onnnon
It's based on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, with their own DE
Based 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?
criddell commented on Pop_OS 24.04 LTS with COSMIC desktop environment blog.system76.com/post/po... · Posted by u/onnnon
I used to hear about COSMIC and think "Glad to see more choice, but I doubt this will go anywhere".
I wanted a Sway-like experience but with a desktop experience, and so tried it.
It's surprisingly good: a DE with powerful enough window tiling.
It's now my daily driver.
Since they're backed by a sole company, I'm still not convinced on their longevity, but remain hopeful!
I'm not familiar with Pop OS, which I now realise is what the post is.
I skimmed the linked story and I still don’t really know what POP!_OS is. They are using the Linux kernel and wrote their own desktop environment, but what’s in between that? Does it include all the GNU system tools? Is there a lot of software that takes advantage of the COSMIC desktop environment? Do they have an App Store? Is it closer to something like Ubuntu or is it more like Android?