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Your First Look at System76’s Rust-Based Desktop Experience

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Thursday 13th of January 2022 04:26:20 PM Filed under
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If you’ve been itching to hear some progress about System76’s new desktop environment, you’re in luck!

Developer Eduardo Flores went hands on with early development versions of several COSMIC components and written about his findings (with copious amount of screenshots) on his blog.

“System76’s objective is to create something that is faster, more customizable, and free of the limitations of the GNOME desktop environment, and let’s face it, we’re all curious as to how this desktop will look like,” Eduardo writes.

And hey: he’s not wrong!

Do keep in mind that everything you see in his (and this) post is at formative stage. Nothing shown is final, nothing shown is stable, and nothing shown is immune to change. Expect the final version of the Rust-based COSMIC desktop to differ (possibly majorly) from anything you see here.

With that public service announcement out of the way, let’s dive in!

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Exploring System76's New Rust Based Desktop Environment

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Friday 14th of January 2022 09:02:34 AM.
  • Exploring System76's New Rust Based Desktop Environment

    System76’s objective is to create something that is faster, more customizable, and free of the limitations of the GNOME desktop environment, and let’s face it, we’re all curious as to how this desktop will look like.

    This post will explore how this new desktop environment is shaping up.

I Tried System76’s New Rust-based COSMIC Desktop!

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Friday 14th of January 2022 12:36:27 PM.
  • I Tried System76’s New Rust-based COSMIC Desktop!

    If you didn’t know already, System76 developers have been working on a new Desktop Environment (dubbed COSMIC) written in Rust: a memory-safe and superfast programming language.

    Creating a desktop environment from scratch is no small feat. That involves creating everything from the compositor, panel, window manager to the APIs for your desktop environment and other back-end tasks.

    It is not an easy task, and maintaining it is another story.

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