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System76’s COSMIC Desktop Hits Initial Setup Completion
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this post was submitted on 30 Aug 2025
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The thing is that sometimes "improving what others made" can be more easily achieved via either re-writing or forking the project.
And not everyone agrees on what the direction for improvement should be. Sometimes improving UX means stripping things away, or at least remodeling it in ways that make supporting the old usecase troublesome. And that can be disruptive.