Here is my latest build: Fedora 44 Cosmic. Was using Fedora KDE, hated the Windows styled start menu. Previous to that Fedora Gnome, but it has problems with user_u confinement; had to ask chatgpt to fix. And my fault didn't document it properly. This time every configuration hardening step is documented so it's repeatable. ( 20 main steps )
I stick with Fedora because of their fast track updates. Patches arrive sooner.
I find Cosmic is similar to Gnome roughly in appearance. It doesn't have a Switch User feature. Maybe it was deliberately designed out. The login screen doesn't show big icons of user names, instead there's a tiny button which is a pull down menu of users; not as convenient.
Cosmic just came out of 2 yrs development in Dec and is still under development. For example when copying a large number of files, sometimes a progress bar comes up, sometimes not. Things get moved around within a span of a few months ( last time I distro hopped ) and a PAM setting changed file location. I am willing to put up with it as long as they don't break my security configuration or it's easy to fix. Cosmic is built by System76 a hardware vendor, so it is well funded. I think of it like Sun Microsystems.
But, Cosmic is built with RUST. No buffer overflows, no use-after-free, no dangling pointers and all that good stuff that comes with a modern language. Less attackable I believe.
I stick with Fedora because of their fast track updates. Patches arrive sooner.
I find Cosmic is similar to Gnome roughly in appearance. It doesn't have a Switch User feature. Maybe it was deliberately designed out. The login screen doesn't show big icons of user names, instead there's a tiny button which is a pull down menu of users; not as convenient.
Cosmic just came out of 2 yrs development in Dec and is still under development. For example when copying a large number of files, sometimes a progress bar comes up, sometimes not. Things get moved around within a span of a few months ( last time I distro hopped ) and a PAM setting changed file location. I am willing to put up with it as long as they don't break my security configuration or it's easy to fix. Cosmic is built by System76 a hardware vendor, so it is well funded. I think of it like Sun Microsystems.
But, Cosmic is built with RUST. No buffer overflows, no use-after-free, no dangling pointers and all that good stuff that comes with a modern language. Less attackable I believe.
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