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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ndlug.org/post/280126

Jeremy Soller shares some examples of the COSMIC lock screen that Pop!_OS is working on.

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[–] merthyr1831@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Brilliant work! COSMIC is a breath of fresh air for the Linux desktop community.

two questions:

  1. Is COSMIC DE going to be exclusively Wayland? Would make sense but I'm just curious.

  2. will COSMIC DE be available separately from Pop!OS? I think this could be a very popular choice for people getting into Arch or Nix, for example.

[–] mmstick@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)
  1. Yes
  2. That depends on those other distributions willingness to package it for their distributions.
[–] merthyr1831@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago
[–] MrPenguinSky@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Hoping someone packages it for gentoo 🤞