pop_os

BIG announcement? (lemm.ee)

back in March, I saw someone posted about this… now that few weeks had passed, what was the announcement? Did I miss something?

It had been a peaceful week with updates (lemm.ee)

there was no updates in last week. I’m sure the team is working hard on the cosmic de and other refinements....

A Blog to Satisfy Your Monthly COSMIC Fix(es) (blog.system76.com)

April Tools: Hammering out new COSMIC Features - System76 Blog (blog.system76.com)

Official System76 Blog

WAM Rust (WebApp Manager) for Cosmic desktop. (www.reddit.com)

Hey,...

Kernel 6.8.2 Update (github.com)

Why does google think I own CrowdSupply once I started using Pop OS? (slrpnk.net)

Ever since I switched to Pop OS whenever I google certain stuff I get this message where google thinks I own crowdsupply

Is it possible to change the View in the file picker on pop os? (slrpnk.net)

When I’m trying to pick a file say when I click Browse on the Image section of making a Lemmy post the file manager doesnt have a button to change the View to Grid so I can see what the image I’m selecting is. I can’t tell what image is what by the tiny preview

Kernel 6.8 Update (March 19, 2024) (github.com)

Pop!_OS spotted in the control room of the Large Hadron Collider (www.reddit.com)

COSMIC: More Alpha, More Fun! (blog.system76.com)

Closing in on a COSMIC Alpha (blog.system76.com)

Pop!_OS begins building packages for 24.04 (Noble Numbat) (github.com)

With today’s repo-release PR #312, Pop!_OS is now building packages for 24.04 (Noble Numbat)....

COSMIC: The Road to Alpha (blog.system76.com)

In-progress COSMIC apps: terminal, file manager, text editor, and settings (fosstodon.org)

COSMIC is a Wayland desktop environment for Linux that is written in Rust with Smithay and Iced. COSMIC applications are developed with the libcosmic platform toolkit, which is based on iced. They are cross-platform and supported on Windows, Mac, and Redox OS in addition to Linux....

The System76 Guide to Gaming on Pop!_OS (blog.system76.com)

Gaming on Linux is easier now than ever before. Though many PC games are still developed with Windows in mind, the emergence of Valve’s Proton and proceeding contributions from the open source community have made Linux gaming into a first-class experience.

LazPaint is surprisingly good (lazpaint.github.io)

LazPaint is a surprisingly good image editor....

COSMIC Terminal next to COSMIC Editor with the same syntax theme (fosstodon.org)

COSMIC Terminal is a GPU-accelerated terminal for COSMIC which supports bidirectional text and ligatures. As it is built using the libcosmic platform toolkit, and thereby iced, it is rendered with Vulkan using the wgpu Rust library. The terminal functionality is provided by the alacritty Rust library, and text rendering by...

cosmic-randr: utility for displaying and configuring display outputs on Wayland (fosstodon.org)

Developed for the display settings page, and compatible with all Wayland compositors which support the wlr-output protocols, cosmic-randr is a new Rust library and command line utility for displaying and configuring display outputs on Wayland desktops.

Cosmic Terminal (fosstodon.org)

This is cosmic-term, a very WIP project that takes the alacritty_terminal crate providing the majority of terminal code but rewrites the renderer to support additional features such as bidirectional text and ligatures. It will support both software and GPU rendering, and will have additional UI sugar provided by libcosmic as...

December Updates: The Spirit of COSMIC (blog.system76.com)

Can't get ALVR to output video to Quest 2 (feddit.it)

Rising from Unity's Ashes: The Evolution of Pop!_OS and the Birth of the COSMIC DE (www.deusinmachina.net)

In the dynamic world of Linux a new Linux distribution is nothing new, but Pop!_OS is something special. Born out of necessity when Ubuntu announced the end of its Unity Desktop in 2017, Pop!_OS has not just filled the void left by Unity, but has carved out a distinct identity in the Linux community. This journey, from an...