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I'm excited for Cosmic Desktop
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this post was submitted on 22 Aug 2024
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elementary OS doesn't even have a functioning desktop, you can't even puts icons or folders on it let alone rearrange them its literally a glorified wallpaper with a dock. please tell me this isn't the case for Cosmic
I actually really like not having icons on the desktop in gnome. It always ends up a collection of random garbage anyway after some time and Icd rather have that in my home directory. Now i can just press my keyboard shortcut to hide all windows and then I have a clean screen with nothing distracting me.
less functionality is bad. with a bit of gaslighting you can make anything seem like a design choice instead of admitting it's hard to make a good and sustainable implementation for said functionality. but at least gnome has extensions and is customisable, Pantheon DE is a brick in comparison.
Depends on what you want to do I guess. I'd rather have a clean desktop that cannot accumulate clutter like in windows where applications add shortcuts to the desktop automatically which you then have to remove manually.
linux doesn't have that problem and most of the times you're asked if you want to add a shortcut on the Desktop during the install even on Windows, i mean it's good we have options for all the use cases and workflows by having these different Desktop Environments but i think having options within the DE itself is better for the long-term adoption but it's harder to maintain which i understand. i like the UI getting used to me not the other way around