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Re:Cosmic Desktop: Closing in on a Cosmic Alpha by winrid on Wednesday February 14, 2024 @03:48PM (#39375123)
Looking forward to switching just to get rid of the terrible Pop Shop. It has to be the worst open source software I've used.
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Re:Cosmic Desktop: Closing in on a Cosmic Alpha by mmstick76 on Wednesday February 14, 2024 @03:58PM (#39375230)
It's possible to install the `cosmic-store`, but it will be some time before it's ready to replace the elementary appcenter.
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Re:Cosmic Desktop: Closing in on a Cosmic Alpha by winrid on Wednesday February 14, 2024 @04:25PM (#39375641)
I don't see any kind of db in cosmic-store's dependencies. So is it going to have the exact same memory usage problems as elementary appcenter?
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Re:Cosmic Desktop: Closing in on a Cosmic Alpha by mmstick76 on Wednesday February 14, 2024 @05:47PM (#39376653)
Where the elementary appcenter needs 900 MB, and KDE Discover needs 600 MB, the COSMIC Store needs only 60 MB. The COSMIC Store uses serde to serialize package metadata into a bitcode format, which uses significantly less memory and enables rapid application startup times. As a result, it does not need to run in the background, and it can search the entire database in realtime within 5ms.
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Re:Cosmic Desktop: Closing in on a Cosmic Alpha by winrid on Wednesday February 14, 2024 @11:10PM (#39379019)
Amazing, thanks for your work!
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Re:Cosmic Desktop: Closing in on a Cosmic Alpha by vorticalbox on Thursday February 15, 2024 @03:26AM (#39380333)
pop!_os comes with flakpak enabled so i always just avoid the store and head to flathub[0]

[0] https://flathub.org/en

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