COSMIC ALPHA 1 Released (Desktop Environment Written In Rust From System76)
As the first alpha version of COSMIC Epoch 1, it is incomplete. You’ll most certainly find bugs. Testing and bug reports are welcome and appreciated. New feature requests will be considered for Epoch 2, COSMIC’s second release.
COSMIC Epoch 1 (alpha 1) on the Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS alpha ISO files are available
Try COSMIC on other Linux distributions
Fedora - See instructions
NixOS - See instructions
Arch - See instructions
openSUSE - Coming soon
Serpent OS - See instructions
Redox OS - includes some COSMIC Components - See Progress
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It's very stable in my experience, only had minor visual bugs and of-course as alpha version, is incomplete. the cosmic app store is super fast compared to the old pop shop. DE already has more customization options than gnome (without tweaks).
Oooo this is so exciting
Checking it out now, seems very usable already!
Main issues I'm having are related to the Panel applets, like not being able to open Mullvad or Steam library from their right click menus.
But the standard things I've tried like streaming music, watching movies on VLC on a second monitor and playing games (admittedly easy stuff for the laptop like Slay the Spire and Into the Breach) all work with no issues so far.
Looking forward to getting into theming, etc and to see Cosmic get the additional Settings menus and be further refined 😄
Are you just running it in a virtual machine?
Nope, installed directly on an old Dell laptop
can any regular users tell how it differs from using kde/gnome/hyprland - either functionally or the feeling of the experience?