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?
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$!)
To me, if I’m “immediately welcomed by a clean and familiar desktop setup” I change the OS if it annoys me enough. Not something I’m going to write rave reviews about either way. If someone produced a desktop called “Meh” that would probably be my favorite.
I started out with engineering software on Unix..., now everything is ONLY ported to window$.
I hate giving any money to that goblin, gates, but I am forced to. No matter what people say there are no linux based engineering cae cad cam programs worth a darn on the platform. Maybe when it is all cloud based but by then I will be dead or retired.
Thanks for posting this.
THIS looks promising to replace my Apple iMac OS. Several upgrades ago I lost ALL email msgs prior to 2021 for some weird reason, HOURS wasted with online forums, tech help, Apple bar geniuses. NOT retrievable from hard drive backups. ALSO all my music’s scrambled. Several hundred gBytes worth. One folder held nearly 500 Irish songs (first guy who says that’s really only 1 song and 499 repeats get’s clobbered with me Da’s Shilleighleigh), I’d synch iPhone and four songs transferred. Weird. All were on my desktop. Synched again and BAM, there’s only 4 songs in the same folder on BOTH iMac AND iPhone. This was an all-day fix (I had all but maybe two CD’s on hand), then it did it again with a country/western swing folder. Many Album covers don’t match bands, about HALF the songs have “SKIPS” in them… other data like dates corrupted. Hours, WEEKS rebuilding volumes, only to have it happen AGAIN
Running Linux MINT Virginia on two former PC systems, Laptop and Desktop, VERY FAST, faster than Windows. thinking I’ll tinker with a thumb-drive load or dual install of COSMIC first, but Apple’s OS must go.
Bobby certainly is a fanboi.
I’ve been using and programming computers since IBM360 and then DEC10, CP/M, MSDOS (3.0 was the best), Windows 3, 93, 95, 97, 98, 2000, NT, XT, 7, 8, 10 and now 11. I started experimenting with Linux when Red Hat was free.
For hard core engineering, video and scientific users, many of the features described will be useful. For the rest of us, email, word processing, spreadsheets, browsers and games are our daily computer encounters. We seldom run more than two or three at a time.
Every current shell is overkill for the vast majority of users. An iPad with a keyboard is just fine. Other than saying it just has everything where we expect it to be, nothing here gets me excited. So I ask... Will it run Gnome Mahjong??
Good example of all the different Linux options and customizations possible. You can mix and match stuff across versions and desktops. Like this, basically standard Linux under the hood but with very cool window dressing and options. :)
