So, as I mentioned, on Sat we switched to Cosmic, and we're liking it. It does have some issues, but the ones not caused by me are minor, and somewhat amusing, cursor alignment is slightly off, wallpaper placement setting won't stick, and that's about it. I don't like the dynamic workspaces, so I hope that'll change in the future, whether it gets removed or becomes optional I don't care.

Outside of that, it's nicely polished. I do have to do a test to verify that the other two problems are caused by me, but that's minor. It does do one thing far better than Cinnamon's Wayland spin, and that's handle localization customization. Dunno if it's a bug or a feature, but apparently Wayland doesn't allow customizing your local settings, ie if'n you choose US-English, you get M/D/Y date format, 12 hour clock and so on, that can't be changed, instead it's handled at the DE level I guess, because KDE doesn't have that problem, nor does Cosmic, but Cinnamon does. A nuisance, and something that likely won't be fixed for a while as the Mint team has a lot on their plate.

If'n you're a software developer, I'm sure they'd like help with any of their projects, but the one that I think is the biggest importance to Linux as a whole is the GTK porting project. I'm not sure what the name is, but the long and the short is that they're trying to jettison Libwaita which is really tied into Gnome apps, and causes problems, mostly theming for all GTK distros that aren't Gnome, Mate, Cinnamon, Xfce, etc. Yeah, they're doing that, keeping up Linux Mint development, switching to Wayland, all at the same time, ambitious, perhaps too much so.

#Linux #linuxmint #Cinnamon #AsahiLinux #CosmicDesktop #popos #system76 #system76cosmic

EDIT
Tested, clipboard works fine in Plasma(KDE) as does screenshot, which is Wayland like Cosmic, so this suggests a different and unexpected problem, I'd thought it was merely caused by two programs claiming the same keyboard shortcuts, but nope. This might mean Cosmic isn't usable enough yet.
EDIT 2
Just got the system updated, 210 updates, clipboard works, so does screen shot. Ugly border, and needs tooltips, but the screenshots will do.
EDIT 2A
Yay, WiFi works again, this was some kind of oops upstream, apparently the Broadcom drivers got broken about a week ago, but it finally works.