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System76 Launches Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS With COSMIC Desktop (www.phoronix.com)
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https://system76.com/pop/download/

Release Notes

  • Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS includes the new COSMIC Desktop Environment, designed and developed by System76.

  • 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

  • Pop!_Shop is replaced by COSMIC Store

  • Key components

    • COSMIC Epoch 1
    • Linux kernel 6.17.9
    • Mesa 25.1.5-1
    • NVIDIA Driver 580

  • Some games may start partially off-screen. Press F11 or Super+F11 to fullscreen the game

  • Display toggle hotkeys and an on-screen display is not supported yet

  • 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

  • COSMIC is not currently optimized for touch devices. An on-screen-keyboard is in development.

  • The COSMIC Desktop will be continuously updated with new features and improvements after release

  • Kernels and hardware support are continuously updated in Pop!_OS

  • You can follow COSMIC DE feature and improvement progress on the project board

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[–] cygnus@lemmy.ca 51 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (6 children)

Awesome, congrats to the team. I don't use it anymore but I'll always have a soft spot for PopOS as being the distro that finally made me a Linux fulltimer. I really wish KDE would implement their tiling system.

[–] jlow@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 week ago (4 children)

You've tried that KDE tiling addon / app and it's not for you, I guess?

[–] cygnus@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 week ago

Krohnkite? It unfortunately doesn't have anywhere near the polish and ease of use as the PopOS implementation, for example its easy toggling between tiling and stacking. Nobody comes close to the way PopOS has done it.

[–] rozodru@pie.andmc.ca 6 points 1 week ago

Krohnkite is fine and all but it's quite janky with certain programs.

[–] IrritableOcelot@beehaw.org 5 points 1 week ago

Krohnkite is incredibly janky, I tried it recently and it made all the window animations lag. Also every third boot or so it would fully stop kwin from starting, and lead to a black screen on login.

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