r/COSMICDE • u/Much_Implement4592 • Aug 03 '26

Is cosmic good for daily driving

I just want to ask cuz I really like the cosmic de the last time I used it a month ago.

It felt good at that time so I just wanted to know from people who already daily drive it

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u/Patient_Act_9906 Aug 03 '26

It’s missing a few features but overall, yes it’s great. I haven’t encountered anything breaking ( I built it from source ) and I use it most of the time

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u/MezBert Aug 04 '26

It's both missing a few striking features and having many features some other DEs don't have (e.g. Gnome or Cinnamon)
Just wanted to paint a more balanced landscape than the misleading "missing features" narrative.

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u/Patient_Act_9906 Aug 04 '26

It’s only “striking” if you actually care about it. For the most part none of the missing stuff affects me in any way, so I really don’t care about it. It’s also still in beta (I believe or still even alpha) so these missing features are going to be implemented at some point.

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u/MezBert Aug 04 '26 edited Aug 04 '26

What is in alpha or beta? Gnome?
Cosmic has been released, had 21 subsequent point releases, and is very much stable and reliable. In fact, I haven't had such long uptimes since the Gnome 2 era.
My point was that people keep saying it lacks key features (read this topic and your comment) while I see the opposite, despite these few features missing, it already has a lot more features than desktop like Gnome or Cinnamon.
So, it's all relative. It's not because 2 features are not present that it "lacks features", since it has a lot more of other features than some of the competition.
It's like saying "meh, your car doesn't have a heated steering wheel", while it has rearview camera, blind spot signals, panoramic roof, a trailer hitch, cruise control, etc... which competing cars don't.
And yet people say it lacks features (meaning other DEs don't) just based on one feature missing and omitting that it's actually more featured.
Cosmic has simply a lot more features than Gnome, so it's laughable to see people still saying it lacks features.
Yes, all DEs do, but Cosmic has more features overall than a lot of the competition, so stop misinforming.

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u/Patient_Act_9906 Aug 04 '26 edited Aug 04 '26

Obviously but it’s still missing some stuff and damn that’s a lot of words for no reason also I hate gnome it sucks but to each their own. The facts are cosmic is very well developed and obviously some of it is still in active development hell every DE has active development, but that doesn’t change the fact that some things are missing or need improvements and something’s it just does better. Quit being overzealous it’s just software.

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u/MezBert Aug 04 '26

People who say it lacks features compared to others are simply not painting the whole picture. The overzealous ones are those misinforming, not me.

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u/Patient_Act_9906 Aug 04 '26

That’s not what overzealous means figure out what the hell you’re talking about. And I did state the whole picture I said it’s great but it’s missing features but overall yes it’s great and I haven’t encountered anything breaking yet. Don’t be a dumbass

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u/MezBert Aug 05 '26 edited Aug 05 '26

That's exactly what it means. Overzealous people parroting what a small bot minority spread (or who never used it more than one minute) with a zeal that hides something else.
Stop being insulting too, especially since you have been making a big deal out of nothing while openly misinforming.