The article isn’t great as it fails to mention that Gnome is considering a variation of Inter and not the default and therefore the article uses the wrong font in the screenshot. It addresses some of the concerns people have mentioned, like the capital I and lower l being the same

Unlike Gnome, KDE do actually care about their users, not just about themselves.

It’s hilarious how, despite KDE apps being broken on every DE that isn’t plasma, people will still find a way to blame Gnome for it.

Contrarily to KDE, Gnome has managed to make sure that libadwaita apps look and work just like they’re supposed to and how its shown on the screenshot in the app store. You might not like the theme, but at least you knew what to expect before downloading, whatever distro you are on.

It’s great that KDE finally managed to fix their app so that they come with everything it need to function properly. People might be able to use them now on other DEs.

If I remember correctly they do have rollback, at least in openSUSE Aeon (the immutable version based on Tumbleweed) . It just using btrfs snapshots

Not really. He isn’t just assosiated to the hyperland community, he is the leader of it and some if the offending stuff came directly from him.

The FDO was just warning him that if this type of behavior happened again, they wouldn’t be working with him anymore and he decided to throw a tamper tantrum. If this is how he reacts to “please don’t behave like a piece of s*** in the future”, why would the FDO even try to work with him? It’s just not worth the trouble.

This isn’t a new package manager, Fedora is already using dnf. This is just the next version of their current package manager.

PackageKit isn’t a package manager in the same sense as what I meant. It’s more like a one level above “front end” to be able to manage different package managers with the same program. This means that “Software Stores” that use packagekit like Gnome Software or KDE Discover will work on most Linux system with whatever package manager is used in the backend. For example on a Fedora Workstation, packagekit makes it possible to install, update and manage both rpm installed through dnf, Flatpaks and if I wanted, Snaps, while on a Debian based system it would be able to manage your apt stuff, or on Arch packages installed through pacman for example. But from what I heard this also makes it a somewhat clunky and slow piece of software that has become kind of clunky and hard to maintain over the years, so its also an interesting question whether Cosmic is going to use it.

I just realized that I haven’t read any infos about the package manager that Cosmic is going to use. Is it going to be build on top of Ubuntu like Pop!OS and use apt? Are the apps going to be served by the package manager or as Flatpaks? If the later, it could be interesting to public them on the Flathub Beta remote when they reach that stage.