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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

  • Buffalox@lemmy.world
    1·
    2 days ago

    I used XFCE many years because there were bugs and limitations in KDE I couldn’t live with.
    Now I’ve used KDE for about 2 years without issues, and they pull this stupid stunt!
    I still have XFCE installed, and when I switched to that my games worked fine again. Then when I wanted to switch back to KDE/X11 I couldn’t. It was friggin removed as an option after the latest upgrade, despite I specifically used KDE/X11 instead of Wayland because of a KDE/Wayland limitation that you can’t disable compositing.
    I do use compositing, but I like to have the option to disable it if I need to. And it was when I noticed I couldn’t disable compositing, I switched to XFCE to see if that worked.
    So long story short, I had to install a kde-x11-session package to be able to switch to it? WTF??
    I must admit this incident has made me think of switching to another distro that respect user settings more.

    PS:
    My short trip to XFCE was quite nice, they have refined the design some since last I used it. But damned I’ll have to port all my hotkeys again, I used top have them in xbindkeys, but I moved them to native KDE to be compatible with both X11 and Wayland. 🙄