Pop OS COSMIC looks kind of amazing. I am not running it yet, as people are reporting some issues. I'll give it a month and then dive in. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyXzjnd6q3g
I've been tempted to install Pop!OS on my Thinkpad, I've traditionally used Ubuntu for my laptop installs, but their recent (unnecessary IMHO) shift to rust tools has really pissed me off.
I'm in a similar situation, where I just want to watch for a bit before wiping my disk and changing distro!
People have a lot of complaints about Ubuntu, but it generally "just works"... and I'm far too old to argue with that... 😹
why migration to Rust is not a good idea (I'm not a dev)?
I'm not just a fan of changing something unless it's broke. I have nothing against rust, per se.
But changing the core utils from very known, very old, highly battle tested and maintained code to rust utils, without proper testing (already there are many critical bugs reported), just isn't something I can agree with--particularly when we're talking about core utils.
Also the original core utils maintainers are skilled in C/C++. Now to say they need to learn rust to maintain the same toolset, is not exactly fair IMHO.
got you! thank you.
I guess it's hard to find a balance between stability that is offered by "old", and progress that the "new" enables.
Usually "new" wins over "old" when is at least 10x better.
So, the question is: is Rust 10x better than C/C++ ?
I'm not in a position to answer this...
