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I tried cosmic for a long time (yr+), but it always seemed a little unstable. Maybe my hardware, but mint is running just fine
I had the same experience with cosmic. It was prone to crashes. I really like the idea of combining gnome with i3wm/hyprland though. I currently have one box using gnome with a tiling shell extension, but the issue there is extensions not being well supported between gnome versions.
I wouldn't be opposed to retrying cosmic now. It's been a few years.
Have you tried out O-tiling? It's a fork of PopShell. I've been contributing some minor bugfixes. It's been working very well on GNOME 50.
No I haven't, but I think I'll give that shot. Thanks for the heads up.
I'd definitely say try it again. It's been rock solid for me for about a year. Definitely had stability issues when it was newer.
I had tons of stability issues within the last year unfortunately, I would still recommend against it.
Not to be rude, but this has nothing to do with the post...