System76 Blog
https://blog.system76.com/post/closing-in-on-a-cosmic-alpha
Official System76 Blog
https://blog.system76.com/post/closing-in-on-a-cosmic-alpha
Official System76 Blog
Progress looks nice! Not a big fan of how the osd and tabs look, but everything else is quite nice
They would look better if they added padding and switch from border color to state based background color. But if they did that, they would have to rework their design system. Too much work. I bet they tackle that much farther into it's life cycle.
They build a desktop toolkit which can be used for many others, with way different styles. Budgie thought about that but abandoned the idea afaik.
I feel like OSDs would look much better with some background transperancy which they added to the terminal couple days ago. So I would hope it gets added to OSDs soon as well
Eventually, yes. It may be faster available if you contribute on maintaining the packages, though.
How do I do that?
I'm relatively new to linux but I have some experience with Java and Python
Should be straight forward. If you willing to do all the work, the Debian community should be very welcoming
Packaging doesn't usually require programming knowledge. Usually just a little bit of bash and reading the documentation.
Does System76 have right now, or upcoming, any laptops that can match Apple's hardware quality? They seem like Clevo rebrands.
They have been working on a fully in-house open source laptop for some time but I don't know the ETA on it.
apple's hardware quality
I laughed. Cheaply made Chinese builds sold at a huge markup to make it look good to rich idiots doesn't mean quality.
I'm sorry, but I absolutely cannot understand this. Have you held a modern macbook, like a macbook m2 air, in your hands?
I don't like their software a lot, but the hardware is top of the industry in almost every way after they released their own CPUs. For what you get, they are cheap.
Before Apple Silicon they were more meh, though.
i tried recently compiling the epoch build on machine, but it didn't start. maybe because of my nvidia card. nevertheless i'll be installing this as soon as it hits the arch repos!
Yeah I had trouble building it on Arch. Something went wrong with a particular dependency, but I forget which. I'll give it another try soon, since I'm incredibly eager to experience the newer changes.