Posted on 08/09/2024 12:55:38 PM PDT by ShadowAce
OK so I take it COSMIC is an operating system. Will it outperform Windows and be offered in laptop computers?
Or is COSMIC a browser like Google Chrome?
(I’m low tech.)
Looks nice.
How much does it collect and share all my information?
OS,
Anything is faster than windows.
That’s not being funny.
I’ve used all those desktops and I just don’t get excited about this stuff. Most are fine, some suck, mostly if I have to look very hard to find what I know is there. (Which is why the first thing I install on every Windows PC since Win 7 is “Classic Shell”, fie on M$!)
To me, if I’m “immediately welcomed by a clean and familiar desktop setup” I change the OS if it annoys me enough. Not something I’m going to write rave reviews about either way. If someone produced a desktop called “Meh” that would probably be my favorite.
From the article:
and our initial thoughts can be summed up most briefly with this: it’s a game-changer! Above all, it is incredibly fast. And when I say fast, I don’t just mean fast – it’s fast in the blink of an eye.
None. If you care to, and have the ability, you can check out the source code itself.
I’m low-tech too, but I don’t see why it wouldn’t work on a laptop; but I don’t know if you can buy a system that has it on already. We have always just ditched the Windows OS, and then installed the Linux distro. It’s always been a very easy transition from using Windows to using a Linux system.
I have a few hand me down Dell laptops that have different distributions of Linux and I’m getting better about using them more.
I’m trying not to be such a hypocrite in a way since I picked up a couple of lightweight LPI certificates since they were fairly easy and inexpensive and use Windows primarily.
Someday I might able to face Linux+ certification.
There are some others ahead of that.
Please see my tagline.
What's the difference between a desktop environment and an OS?
What are examples of currently used and popular desktop environments like the one I'm using with Windows 11?
Don’t give up so easily.
I would need the system pre-installed into the laptop. Does Dell offer Linux in their commuters?
I get that Linux runs COSMIC (or vise versa).
I’m not an expert at all - just a user. We just got very pissed with MS, and didn’t want anything to do with them anymore. Changing to using LINUX was very easy for me (I have a personal ‘Beast of Burden’ to do the hard technical stuff for me :-)
I don’t find it much different from using Windows at all; but I wouldn’t know about everything under the hood...
I’ve never seen a DELL computer that came with a LINUX OS. LINUX is free. It seems to me they wouldn’t make any money on it.
It’s not hard to change or install it yourself:
https://www.pcmag.com/how-to/how-to-make-the-switch-from-windows-to-linux
If you don’t want to bother, it probably wouldn’t cost much to pay a local geek or Computer Sci major to do it for you...
There are a couple of things I use a windows version of that I haven’t gotten the feel of the open source equivalent.
Most of that comes from intermittent use and not using enough to transition to completely.
I recently bought a very nice Dell laptop that was a refurbished gaming system with a warranty that will take the place of the tower PCs to host a few distros in Virtual Box. eBay has a deal once in a while. The laptop looks and feels almost like a new one.
Since I have a Udemy subscription and some Linux stuff on a list, I should be doing more hands on while on the couch or recliner.
I have enough watch later of Linux training in YouTube to follow up.
Well, a couple of spreadsheets is probably as complicated I ever get, so I’m not much help. Good Luck!
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