I’m a System76 engineer / Pop!_OS maintainer. I’ve been a Linux user since 2007; and Rust since 2015. I’m currently working on COSMIC-related projects.
It will be possible to configure COSMIC to look like Unity out of the box. There’s only a few panel applets that need to be implemented to make the experience 1:1.
If you can't find something that meets your needs, let us know what we need to add! We can often offer options beyond those in the system configurator.
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....
Pipewire natively supports a filter to create a 7.1 virtual surround sound device that will work with any headphones or earphones. It’s not well documented, so I decided to write a step-by-step guide for enabling it in Pop!...
The display preview in cosmic-setting's wallpaper settings page will now show how the wallpaper will look like with the scaling mode selected. There's currently "Fit to Screen", "Stretch", and "Zoom"....
These updates will improve performance, bring more hardware compatibility, fix various issues, and most importantly of all, resolves some outstanding major security vulnerabilities that were recently discovered to affect all kernels from 6.1.0 through 6.4.1....
COSMIC: The Road to Alpha (blog.system76.com)
COSMIC Store Prototype (lemmy.world)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/13038090...
Pop!_OS officially supports Lemmy as Reddit alternative (www.reddit.com)
The official community is hosted at !pop_os...
COSMIC lock screen will be customizable with themes (fosstodon.org)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ndlug.org/post/280126...
COSMUnity (lemmy.world)
It will be possible to configure COSMIC to look like Unity out of the box. There’s only a few panel applets that need to be implemented to make the experience 1:1.
April Tools: Hammering out new COSMIC Features (blog.system76.com)
Pop!_OS & COSMIC funded by System76 hardware sales (fosstodon.org)
If you can't find something that meets your needs, let us know what we need to add! We can often offer options beyond those in the system configurator.
December Updates: The Spirit of COSMIC (blog.system76.com)
Locked and Loaded with new COSMIC DE Updates! (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....
7.1 virtual surround sound with any headphones
Pipewire natively supports a filter to create a 7.1 virtual surround sound device that will work with any headphones or earphones. It’s not well documented, so I decided to write a step-by-step guide for enabling it in Pop!...
COSMIC now supports theming GTK3/4 applications (lemmy.world)
COSMIC Settings Wallpaper Preview (fosstodon.org)
The display preview in cosmic-setting's wallpaper settings page will now show how the wallpaper will look like with the scaling mode selected. There's currently "Fit to Screen", "Stretch", and "Zoom"....
A Blog to Satisfy Your Monthly COSMIC Fix(es) (blog.system76.com)
COSMIC: More Alpha, More Fun! (blog.system76.com)
Linux 6.4.6 and Mesa 23.1.3 Released (github.com)
These updates will improve performance, bring more hardware compatibility, fix various issues, and most importantly of all, resolves some outstanding major security vulnerabilities that were recently discovered to affect all kernels from 6.1.0 through 6.4.1....
May Flowers Spring COSMIC Showers (blog.system76.com)
COSMIC Edit with project-wide search (fosstodon.org)
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