Niri + DMS has been a much better experience than COSMIC for me
I had used COSMIC for quite a while, and honestly, I still think it's pretty rough around the edges.
I've run into memory leaks, many missing features like window exceptions/rules, and a lot of animation glitches and inconsistencies. What surprised me the most is that I switched to niri + dms, and I simply don't have any of those issues anymore. On top of being more stable, it also offers significantly more customization and functionality.
At work I use gnome + paperwm with several extensions, and despite the extensions, the experience is still far more stable and consistent than what I had with COSMIC.
I know the obvious response is going to be: "COSMIC is still in development." That's true, but so are Niri and DMS. The difference is that those are essentially side projects maintained by a handful of developers, while COSMIC has an entire company behind it. Given that, I expected COSMIC to have progressed much faster by now.
I'm not trying to hate on the project I actually want it to succeed because I think competition in the Linux desktop space is great. But based on my experience, it still has a long way to go before I'd consider using it as my daily desktop again.
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