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I'm asking because there seems to be a lot of buzz about it and the two major RPM distros already have it, though I understand it is still experimental. If not, that's fine. Just curious

I don't really have a say in it, but I'm going to say "No". Our packagers are spread pretty thin as it is.

So far, I'm not a bit impressed with Cosmic.

Sounds good. I haven't tried it. I was never impressed with Pop_OS! so I'm not really surprised. As thin as the Mageia packagers are, I have to commend you because I rank this distro right up there with my favorites which are Mint and Fedora... maybe even a tinge higher. It's way better than OpenSUSE which breaks frequently. Mageia deserves to be ranked higher than several in DW's top 10. Quite an accomplishment for an independent distro as I know that is far more difficult than piggybacking onto Ubuntu or Debian or Arch.

Thank you coaxguy
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coaxguy99 wrote:I'm asking because there seems to be a lot of buzz about it and the two major RPM distros already have it, though I understand it is still experimental. If not, that's fine. Just curious

Shouldn't you just be able to take the SPEC files from the disros that have it and build it for Mageia? I know the process of becoming a packager for Mageia is laborious, but you can host the RPMs elsewhere with much less trouble (admittedly though they're much harder for end users to find).

I have tried COSMIC, but it came across as rather buggy to me, so I couldn't continue to use it, other than finding nothing compelling to make me want to use it. I do understand that it is a young project still. All of the desktop environments that are essentially offshoots of Gnome (Cinnamon, Budgie, COSMIC, MATE) seem like attempts to make Gnome more usable. Call me a dyed-in-wool Plasma fan, but they just don't do it for me.

Having said that, going through system settings in Plasma vs. Gnome-based often seems silly to me:

* Plasma - make change, then 'Apply' the change
* Gnome - just make the change, no extra step!