Gonna have to raise the age old question about this project, because myself and a lot of other developers are only seeing the one angle.

The question is: why?

What is this project solving that System76 is willing to pay multiple developers for? It’s almost pound-for-pound a recreation of GNOME, right down to the menu system.

Rust is not a features it’s a language. It also doesn’t solve any issues with Gnome that I’m aware of.

The biggest issue in the Gnome world I’m aware of is the lack of parity with Windows with regards to display capabilities, and possibly the plugin system causing issues.

So I’m still wondering…why??? What’s the best feature anyone can point out here? It’s not resources, in fact, this Alpha performs pretty poorly on its own vs Gnome. What’s the killer feature I’m missing?

I’ve had issues where the tiled windows go all over the place before/after connecting to external monitors in GNOME Pop shell. I can’t speak for the entire Cosmic project, but as an end user who wants an established DE with native tiling windows that always work as intended, I consider the project justified

That’s a big. That’s not a reason to do a complete rewrite of something. You also mention tiling, which is not the DE, it’s the window manager. Easily solved. Neither of these issues is cause for a complete rewrite.

S76 already stated that maintaining the tiling extension for gnome was more effort then it was worth