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Comment Cosmic is not ready for prime time (Score 5, Informative) 8

After waiting on upgrading Pop!_OS 22.04 to Pop!_OS 24.04 with Cosmic for as long as I could (in hopes of avoiding the bugs I assumed would come with moving from Gnome to a brand new desktop environment) I finally did.

Cosmic is not ready for prime time. The number of bugs and PRs I've had to submit since switching to it is a deal breaker if this is your daily driver OS and desktop environment.

The components of Cosmic release very very frequently (every couple weeks). Upside is, when you encounter a bug, if you can write the PR to fix it and submit it, it'll get merged and deployed to the global user base of Cosmic in a couple weeks. Downside is that at this release frequency, the software isn't getting vetted at the level a production desktop environment needs to be. Example, I reported a bug in the compositor, a core developer fixed the bug and deployed it, but introduced a new bug (that is obvious as soon as you use Cosmic).

I have System76 hardware and so I'd like to run Pop!_OS, but I'm thinking of switching to Ubuntu 24.04 just so I can be on 24.04 but not be running Cosmic.

Some examples
* Delete a line in the editor and it crashes : https://github.com/pop-os/cosm...
* Page-up and Page-down don't work in the file browser : https://github.com/pop-os/cosm...
* Windows shrink each time you move them : https://github.com/pop-os/cosm...
* After fixing the shrinking windows, windows when maximized extend outside the display : https://github.com/pop-os/cosm...

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