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Carl Richell

@carlrichell

Founder and CEO of System76. Maker of Linux computers and Pop!_OS.

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Making COSMIC in Rust Language, being a relatively new language, required building the fundamental capability to create a desktop environment. This included text rendering and a complete toolkit of high-level components with deep platform integration. That foundation now makes it

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COSMIC is the no-compromise desktop. You want keyboard driven, you got it. Prefer the mouse, use it for everything. Want to go ham on customization and themes. Go ham. On and on without being overwhelming. It all feels natural.

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Interesting fact: AMD+NVIDIA hybrid laptops require Wayland. This is because the latest AMD Radeon integrated GPUs are not VGA compatible and hybrid won't work in that configuration on X11 (everything runs on the dGPU).

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COSMIC apps border outline now matches the corner radius. The work is based on upstream conversations to establish a corner radius wayland protocol. We'll submit our draft protocol soon. If accepted and adopted in other toolkits, compositors will be able to render clean borders

COSMIC apps border outline now matches the corner radius.

The work is based on upstream conversations to establish a corner radius wayland protocol. We'll submit our draft protocol soon. If accepted and adopted in other toolkits, compositors will be able to render clean borders
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xdg-surface-shape-v1 has been submitted to wayland-protocols. The protocol provides a method for clients to communicate their corner radii to the server/compositor and thus enable clean outlines around windows made with additional toolkits. gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/waylan…

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I love this laptop. Had the opportunity to work on it for a few weeks and it's a pleasure to use. Wonderful screen. Wonderful keyboard. AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 & NVIDIA RTX 5070 make a perfect combination. I like my 14" Darter but I can feel the tug from this one.

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You know I've seen several people post over the last couple month that they are in need of a job. I'm also looking for full time, part time or even contract work. Versed in pretty much every programming language known to man, on pretty much every platform you can think of.

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It was nice to see friends, colleagues and new tech at Ubuntu Summit. All the talks were great. I particularly enjoyed Scott Jenson's UX design talk.