Marco Allegretti

Looking for people crazy enough to help with a Linux Desktop Environment.

The project is already fairly well underway, but it’s the kind of idea that benefits from curious, experimental minds.

The stack is… modern (lol):
Rust, Flutter, Wayland.

If you like weird ideas, desktop environments, or just want to see where this madness goes, feel free to reach out 👀

#linux #opensource #rustlang #wayland #flutterdev

Mar 8 at 4:51pmMastodon for Android
Show threadMichał FitaMar 8
@23DSP Wouldn't be better to just go and help with #Cosmic?
Show threadKeith BöhlerMar 8

@michalfita @23DSP

Better yet apply to work there. I would if I could

https://jobs.gusto.com/postings/system76-inc-you-ya-beautiful-person-a119561f-8a34-4962-a3d5-446812adaf64

You, Ya Beautiful Person at System76, Inc.

Show threadMichał FitaMar 8
@keithnator3000 @23DSP They hire in US only as far as I know.
Show threadNiklas KorzMar 8
@michalfita @keithnator3000 @23DSP the developer of the cosmic compositor is based in Berlin
Show threadMarco AllegrettiMar 8
@michalfita Cosmic is great and I respect what System76 is doing with Iced. But Rust+Flutter is an unexplored space — Flutter's rendering pipeline + Rust as backbone could bring DE to platforms and form factors Cosmic isn't targeting. Not competing, just a different bet.
Show threadlneMar 8
@23DSP i've had many thoughts about this kind of thing and am interested to see if your project is nursing similar ones
Show threadKatzenmann / CatpersonMar 9
@23DSP Idk. I prefer to not buld my stack on Google software that no one is willing to maintain if Google drops the project
Show threadMarco AllegrettiMar 9

@katzenmann
The “Flutter is Google-centric” take usually comes from people who never actually looked at the repo... bloggers 🙄

Flutter development is fully public, the main repo has 1,600+ contributors, and a large amount of ecosystem work happens outside Google. PRs, reviews, and discussions are all in the open.

It’s also BSD-3 licensed, which means anyone can fork and maintain it independently. If Google disappeared tomorrow, the code and ecosystem would still exist.

Show threadKatzenmann / CatpersonMar 9
@23DSP If that's the case then I spoke bullshit and apologize.
Show threadMarco AllegrettiMar 9
@katzenmann I'm the one who has to apologize. I'm short, but there's a lot to say, and there's a language barrier. Your doubts are well-founded, and Google is notorious for fueling the very doubts you've expressed. What I've listed above mitigates the problem you've described. For example, Flutter's rendering pipeline has a "tax" of about 30 MB of GTK3 libraries; however, some public Sony repositories offer ways to avoid carrying this obsolete burden and "talk directly to Wayland."