It's been almost a year since I've last tried COSMIC; though development since then has mostly been centered around stability (going from late alpha to stable releases now!) there have been a fair bit of user-facing changes too which I adore. I thus have to ask myself:
…so you came straight to the comments based off the headline?
It’s a great article that basically spends the entire time praising Cosmic for all the great things it’s doing. It does contrast Cosmic with KDE because it’s written by a dev who did things like the frosted glass feature and built a bunch of popular themes for KDE, but they really sell you on Cosmic. After reading it I’m considering giving it a second try, and I’m on KDE currently.
Not my fault if the title lies and there’s actually nothing bad about Cosmic, but that’s not my point. My point is before talking bad about others, take a look at yourself.
Real developers always compare themselves with competitors. It’s standard operating practice…
Our company does it all the time.
And, we always love hearing feedback about our faults too (particularly from technical people), as it allows us to identify and improve.
That being said, I’m not sure if you’ve actually read the article, because, they’re not really talking bad at all… It’s super positive.
And, I’d even argue its BETTER than positive considering that KDE was founded in 1996, and Cosmic only started development in 2021. Most projects struggle to get off the ground (thats 90% of the effort), and to have other competitors praise you for so many things, after such a short time, I’d LOVE to be on the receiving end. Even if we disagree.
When I started a major project in 2003 which went frontpage in a lot of news sites quickly, I loved to get technical opinions. If I hadn’t of been bullied so badly by (the then) toxic part of the linux community at the time, I would have continued with it. The good news is that projects like Ubuntu adapted something similar to what I was developing, so it wasn’t a waste.
Fortunately, the community has massively changed, and its a lot more positive these days (except for a small number of people calling everything slop).
One would ask KDE devs to do some self-reflection and look at the use of AI in KDE, before talking about what other people “do wrong”.
…so you came straight to the comments based off the headline?
It’s a great article that basically spends the entire time praising Cosmic for all the great things it’s doing. It does contrast Cosmic with KDE because it’s written by a dev who did things like the frosted glass feature and built a bunch of popular themes for KDE, but they really sell you on Cosmic. After reading it I’m considering giving it a second try, and I’m on KDE currently.
Seriously, go read the article. It’s solid.
Not my fault if the title lies and there’s actually nothing bad about Cosmic, but that’s not my point. My point is before talking bad about others, take a look at yourself.
Real developers always compare themselves with competitors. It’s standard operating practice…
Our company does it all the time.
And, we always love hearing feedback about our faults too (particularly from technical people), as it allows us to identify and improve.
That being said, I’m not sure if you’ve actually read the article, because, they’re not really talking bad at all… It’s super positive.
And, I’d even argue its BETTER than positive considering that KDE was founded in 1996, and Cosmic only started development in 2021. Most projects struggle to get off the ground (thats 90% of the effort), and to have other competitors praise you for so many things, after such a short time, I’d LOVE to be on the receiving end. Even if we disagree.
When I started a major project in 2003 which went frontpage in a lot of news sites quickly, I loved to get technical opinions. If I hadn’t of been bullied so badly by (the then) toxic part of the linux community at the time, I would have continued with it. The good news is that projects like Ubuntu adapted something similar to what I was developing, so it wasn’t a waste.
Fortunately, the community has massively changed, and its a lot more positive these days (except for a small number of people calling everything slop).
you read the title entirely wrong, mate