Carl the CEO of System76 Filled us in on What is REALLY going on...

We are designing and writing code toward a COSMIC DE. Both are experimental and intended only to test the tech stack that we'll eventually land on. I think it's likely this will result in a new DE but we have questions to answer before it's official. The investment we're making in Pop is large regardless. We're putting similar resources into the 2023 version of Pop that we did building the factory. The DE is only one part of the story. There's more to come.

Qt is C++ and doesn't have Rust bindings. We considered kwin and had the same problem. Our team expertise is in Rust. Most of all, we are spending more time adapting upstream than adding value for our customers. Building and maintaining a DE will be considerable but at least it will be work toward our vision for the future of desktop operating systems.

Cheers,


Carl