I personally don’t get the hype around Cosmic - I’m not clear what makes it so exciting for people? It seems to be a reaction to the restrictive design philosophy of Gnome but not moving too far from it at the moment.
It’s likely they don’t actually have much of a problem with Gnome UX, they just want to be fully in control, rather than Gnome devs being in control of it and there having to be compromises.
Which is fair enough. Gnome DE belongs to Gnome and it’s up to them how the project is run. S76 wants to be fully in control of what they ship, so they moved.
I doubt it was made specifically to solve a Gnome or KDE user’s problem. It’s just a business decision to make them less reliant on others.
I guess people are just happy to have another major DE, and to have one built from the ground up on newer tech, without the legacy cruft that the likes of Plasma, Gnome, and Cinnamon do.
It’s likely they don’t actually have much of a problem with Gnome UX, they just want to be fully in control, rather than Gnome devs being in control of it and there having to be compromises.
Which is fair enough. Gnome DE belongs to Gnome and it’s up to them how the project is run. S76 wants to be fully in control of what they ship, so they moved.
I doubt it was made specifically to solve a Gnome or KDE user’s problem. It’s just a business decision to make them less reliant on others.
I guess people are just happy to have another major DE, and to have one built from the ground up on newer tech, without the legacy cruft that the likes of Plasma, Gnome, and Cinnamon do.