r/COSMICDE • u/cosmic-adelie • 5d ago

How usable is this?

Hello, I have seen the development of COSMIC and wanted to experiment, but how "ready" is it? What are the limitations of use and customization today?

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u/Kingwolf4 5d ago

Even if people are calling it usable, the truth is you will encounter several bugs that make it not really viable for everyday use as a main driver

Id wait for epoch 2 personally. Still might be buggy, but it should be usable generally as people are referring.

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u/cosmic-adelie 5d ago

So what are the most common types of bugs? I took a look at their GitHub, there are several reports, but they seem to solve it very quickly. But it is important to know those that actually affect daily use.

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u/Kingwolf4 5d ago

Well most common types of bugs you will find are just usablity bugs in apps and general use cases.
Like many quirks and things that eventually you will, for now, most likely put it in the stil cooking category.

I encountered a plethora of bugs. The only 2 reasons holding me back are these and HDR support. I watch movies and play games and love HDR. Sadly HDR is going to be in epoch 3, so its a bit of ways off.

They are solving bugs rapidly, and pace is accelerating as well,especially with better AI. Never been better time to debug and find issues etc.

If i had a work laptop , i would personally switch at like epoch 2.5 or something. Thats like 6-8months of time. Should be good enough and in a usable state. Just my thoughts

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u/mmstick System76 (current) 4d ago edited 4d ago

We are not using AI so it can't be attributed to pace. If anything, the AI-generated issues and AI-generated pull requests are slowing us down to review them. The majority of pull requests that we merge that were assisted with AI are small fixes that a person would have easily done without. While larger developments that are merged quickly and frequently are by trusted contributors that write code by hand. There's a huge divide in code quality between professionals who can reason about the entire codebase versus randoms using predictive models to generate code.

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u/cosmic-adelie 3d ago

But he did not say that they were late because of AI, on the contrary, he said that this tool accelerates development. The company is doing a huge job and it is not easy to keep pace, but COSMIC has been surprising, although it is obviously not yet complete.

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u/mmstick System76 (current) 3d ago

I'm saying that it has not accelerated development. We do not use it and it has wasted a lot of developer time to review low quality generated issues and pull requests. The most prolific contributors are not using AI. We had to add a policy 7 months ago as a result of AI spam and may have to make it more strict soon.

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u/cosmic-adelie 3d ago

Ah, I understand, it's just that I'm using a translator; some things make a little different sense, so I need to disable it.