pop-os/cosmic-epoch

I’ve been using COSMIC on a spare laptop, and enjoying it, but I’m stuck on 22.04 until their Iced rebase finishes and have IME working. [1] Making a new DE plus compositor is a lot of work, but I do hope it works well for the Pop_OS developers. [1] https://github.com/pop-os/cosmic-epoch/issues/2174

https://github.com/pop-os/cosmic-epoch/issues/2851 I was a big fan of popos (for a long time) and upgraded to the latest rust based one. However my firefox stopped working (no response for toolbar menu items and buttons). The work around is to reset your display. After having to do this 5+ times a day (for months), I said sod it and went to ubuntu 22. Sad. note: failed only my intel nuc, but not on thinkpad x1 carbon.

Was looking forward to this for a long time as I think Linux could do with a clean break from the Legacy built around Gnome/KDE/X11. But it's taking so long to get to release my main concern is now that a small company doesn't have the dev resources to take on maintaining a DE by themselves and haven't been successful in attracting a dev community to help pick up the slack. I'm now leaning towards the Hyprland/Omarchy approach of starting with a curated blank slate that can be easily themed, customized and extended to suit where I wouldn't have to rely on big drop releases of a single organization for any missing/preferred functionality. Even at its young age Omarchy has some how managed t…