Although this is great news I’ve often seen System76 devs say “It will be ready when it’s ready” when speaking on any past release. I’m happy to be patient and wait for whatever they release as long as it’s done right. And I’ve come to trust them to go above and beyond expectations.
Yeah, I know Purism gets trashed for reasons they are actually accountable for. And good point about lack of business being a major worry, but in your search did you happen to see anyone trashing these other companies with “It’s just a rebranded [whatever]”?
Good points on clarifying the source of the criticism and the challenges this company face. We still need to explain why so many people trash System76 with this particular garbage. Other small suppliers face the same challenges, and we don’t see this “just a rebranded …” rant applied to them. Some examples would be Purism, Tuxedo and Star Labs. Why aren’t people trashing these companies with the same rhetoric? If anything they do much less to the ODM machine than System76.
You’re correct in pointing out that whatever hardware you buy usually mandates an ecosystem to work within. It took me a long time to completely sever with the Apple ecosystem. Their ‘planned obsolescence’ model and ‘walled garden’ experience are really expensive when you consider the entire deal. Forcing people to retire perfectly good hardware by manipulating software with the solution being to purchase more of their hardware is insidious. Microsoft aren’t much better these days, but their ecosystem has many other expensive features faults.
All good points, and thanks for the company info and clarifications. Apologies, I didn’t know about system76 community on lemmy.world instance.
From what I’ve read, yeah, Acer/Asus used to be the exception.
No public list, sorry. I’m willing to say that I already support many things on your list. And like you pointed out, many projects with software I use don’t have a way to support them financially, which frustrates me to no end.
My yearly spend is approximately €500, give or take a little. Fortunately, I can afford to do this. I hold no judgement for those who are not in a position to do. My only motivation for contributing financially is to ensure the free, functional, ad free, privacy preserving software I love continues to exist. It needs to exist especially for those who cannot afford to pay a corporation for proprietary software. A shout out to all the developers who adhere to FOSS principles. Each new year I make a list of the software I’ve mainlined and similar to the article I allot an amount to each one based on my usage. Many times it’s time-tested old-school tools, but we’re seeing a lot of new development with Rust apps, crates and TUIs. This year I added Matrix. Also EFF, despite not being directly impacted by that jurisdiction. They truly are holding back a giant wave with global repercussions. It’s not always easy to justify the time spent creating FOSS tools when there’s bills to pay, mouths to feed. Thank you - You know who you are.
Not looking for anything except an attempt to clarify the industry standard practice that System76 are not doing anything different to ALL other computer suppliers (OEM). They’re all using ODM for manufacture. If the quality isn’t great that’s another topic, but trashing them in threads for the reason stated is ignorant and uninformed.
OK, sure, whatever, but that’s not relevant to the topic.
I think you guys are doing a tremendous job and COSMIC will be a breath of fresh air. One thing I’d be keen to see in editor is a “Meld-like” diff tool.
Now, this looks interesting! A terminal emulator based on Alacritty and an editor in Rust on COSMIC - I can’t wait. Literally, I’m going to play with it right now.
I understand the tiling features in COSMIC will be much more comprehensive than could be expected of the GNOME extension. I’m anticipating everything you said and more. It’s working fine now in COSMIC DE already and has as much functionality as the extension has already.
COSMIC DE now runs on Asahi Linux, while cosmic-settings and cosmic-icons have been added to NixOS!
This news is awesome! With Slint, Iced and all the many projects working on Rust apps for COSMIC, and now having other distributions on board gives a lot of confidence in the quality of this desktop.
Agreed! What would be amazing though, is a manufacturer who could make a modern safe bare-bones vehicle that didn’t have the tech installed at all. If you want tech you could BYO.
It can’t be illegal because you agree to allow them when you purchase the new vehicle. It’s all there in the T&C and PP, which no one ever reads. Don’t like it? Don’t buy new cars. I won’t.
If Google is to be chastised for abusing its user base this needs to go beyond boycotts of Chrome browser. It’s my hope people stop accepting Google’s gaslighting and send the message by quitting all of their services and products. Viable alternatives exist.
It’s totally usable for me. A little CLI and some scripts do what isn’t finished yet in GUIs. If you want the absolute latest COSMIC packages use
apt-managetoaddthepopdev-masterrepo. It’s only a VM so you shouldn’t be worried about breakage.