It's been a good while since we talked about the PopOS COSMIC desktop and since then it seems to have come along quite nicely with a lot of the basic excepte...
I had spoken to a few System76 people on twitter a while ago when the whole gnome GTK arguments were going on. Also when the first screenshots of the UI were released. The System76 Devs are adamant that it doesn't look like Gnome. Even though Cosmic then and the new one clearly does. Which is fine. It's Gnome written in rust with all the tweaks an extensions they did done in a different and better (code wise) way. Plus a few extras. They should just own those facts.
They're at least open with text editor, I guess I was wrong about it generally. To be fair they're not alone here, KDE is adamant that it's not inspired by Windows
KDE has inspiration from many different DEs really. Windows for some things. You are right The KDE devs insist that it's not. In recent times they have moved to a gtk/gnome look with the hamburger menu and no menu bar (which can be re-enabled). The Linux Mint team own the fact that Cinnamon has a windows-eque look and feel. It's one of the selling points that attracts people to that DE.
Honestly, I can't wait to try it out. It sounds really interesting. If they actually deliver on everything they promise, I probably would daily drive it.
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