LinuxFest Northwest 2024: Meet COSMIC DE
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Carl RichellSystem76 FounderLearn why System76 built COSMIC and the new features and capabilities it brings to the Linux desktop environment landscape.

I've got more COSMIC propaganda. This is a more in-depth overview of COSMIC DE by System76.

Another kicker: COSMIC uses hybrid graphics so your dedicated GPU is only used for certain applications which require it instead of your entire desktop. No more needing to switch between integrated and dedicated graphics on your laptop!

Kick #2: COSMIC apps work on both Linux and Windows operating systems (just like KDE apps).

  • hello_hello [they/them, comrade/them]
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    1 month ago

    Timeline is in rough stages right now. 2 alphas, a beta, and then a stable release alongside POP!_OS 24.04 which should be released around mid summer to the end. But as always, there are no hard dates for a good reason.

    POP!_OS will do yearly releases from that point as well as maintaining upstream system components like Mesa, nonfree Nvidia drivers, systemd, pipewire among others.

    There's no plans to move away from their ubuntu base. COSMIC will come to other distros for sure like OpenSUSE and Fedora (obv Arch as well) so don't feel like you have to use POP!_OS to get COSMIC.

    • Achyu@lemmy.sdf.org
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      1 month ago

      Thank you.

      mid summer to the end

      American season? Assuming that since System76 is based in there. Searched about it on the net; does it mean August/September?

      • hello_hello [they/them, comrade/them]
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        1 month ago

        Yup. Dates are flexible though. We are still at the cutting room floor stage and things outside of COSMIC have to be resolved as well (Nvidia support in Linux, HDR color support, wayland protocol finalization etc).