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Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS includes the new COSMIC Desktop Environment, designed and developed by System76.
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Some GNOME apps are replaced by COSMIC apps
- GNOME Files (Nautilus) > COSMIC Files
- GNOME Terminal > COSMIC Terminal
- GNOME Text Editor > COSMIC Text Editor
- GNOME Media Player (Totem) > COSMIC Media Player
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Pop!_Shop is replaced by COSMIC Store
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Key components
- COSMIC Epoch 1
- Linux kernel 6.17.9
- Mesa 25.1.5-1
- NVIDIA Driver 580
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Some games may start partially off-screen. Press F11 or Super+F11 to fullscreen the game
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Display toggle hotkeys and an on-screen display is not supported yet
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COSMIC has a built-in screenshot tool. If you require annotations, we recommend Flameshot, which can be installed from Flathub via COSMIC Store. Version 13.1 or higher is required for COSMIC
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COSMIC is not currently optimized for touch devices. An on-screen-keyboard is in development.
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The COSMIC Desktop will be continuously updated with new features and improvements after release
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Kernels and hardware support are continuously updated in Pop!_OS
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You can follow COSMIC DE feature and improvement progress on the project board
Anybody tried out cosmic and know how it compares to other DEs? More of a tiling WM guy myself but interested cause I heard it's mostly written in Rust
I've run tiling for years. Cosmic treats tiling as a first class citizen. I enjoyed it.
Try it out.
I still tile, but plan on checking out Cosmic again in the near future.
Interesting, thanks, I'll try it at some stage
It's the baby's tiling DE. A lot of things you would need to look up how to implement on your sway config is likely already implemented with GUI customization options, some design choices are weird (like how you can't switch to Workspace 5 if you dont have anything on Workspace 2,3,4).
If I were just starting to use a tiling WM, I would %100 use this. Too bad I already have my config set up.
I gave it a little test 2 days ago. It's lacking polish and a few options you'd expect to see.
The auto tiling works very well.
The PopOS theming often doesn't work on apps you download, often they don't even respect your dark/light mode preference.
I had one crash, but it was fine upon reboot.
Padding and visual consistency is a bit hit and miss.
Personally I'd say it's not quite ready for my tastes, but it's certainly usable. I can definitely see the complaints I have being rectified in pretty short order.
The not respecting light/dark mode would ruin it for me. I can see how in the future it'll be a very worthwhile DE though, thanks for sharing your experience