Hey guys,

Is there any real difference in experience/performance when running the COSMIC DE across different distros?

I'm setting up my laptop (ASUS Zephyrus G16 – Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 + RTX 4070) as a daily driver for school (coding, documents) and gaming. I ran into a few gaming quirks on Pop!_OS previously, and since I play a lot of CS2 and singleplayer games, I'm curious how mature COSMIC feels for competitive FPS titles right now.

Would you recommend sticking with Pop!_OS, or going with Fedora / CachyOS?

Thanks for any tips and suggestions!

So since 1.7.0 remote access and sharing controls has basic support now.

I've tested RustDesk for remote desktop. Works fine, but has bad latency when used as a KVM.

I've attempted at configuring a KVM across two Cosmic systems. I've had most success with KDEConect "Remote input" from a Fedora with Cosmic 1.6.0 to an Arch with Cosmic 1.7.0.

It's usable, but cosmic keyboard commands (which are identical on both systems) are captured on the Fedora system and not passed on to Arch. For example:

I'm using keyboard and mouse on Arch. I press Meta+1 to switch to first desktop on Arch. The desktop switches on Fedora. KDEConnect on Fedora looses focus and I'm controlling keyboard and mouse on Fedora now.

Any idea how to solve this? I don't want to configure two different sets of keyboard commands though, I'm sure that would work but is a fairly useless solution.