I tried Cosmic for a week. It looked nice but I returned to LXQt because I want:
To display time in ISO 8601 without also messing with locales
To customize my file manager columns
To use Emacs in a terminal emulator
To not have my windows scattered to the four winds every time I lock my screen because the fancy window tiling feature is half-baked
To have the X window manager back. I’m sure some people with use cases besides mine that are compatible only with Wayland, but I simply don’t see the need nor do I wish to be a guinea pig submitting bug reports when so many guinea pigs before me had years of their lives sacrificed polishing X.
Also, the performance of programs like the default Cosmic file manager was much slower then comparable alternatives like pcmanfm-qt which I know run fast even on 2005 Compaq laptop hardware.
I tried Cosmic for a week. It looked nice but I returned to LXQt because I want:
Also, the performance of programs like the default Cosmic file manager was much slower then comparable alternatives like pcmanfm-qt which I know run fast even on 2005 Compaq laptop hardware.