Latest COSMIC Desktop Alpha Adds New Options, VRR Support
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System76 said new alpha releases of the COSMIC DE would roughly appear once a month (give or take), a cadence that enables them flesh out the features planned for its first stable release and get feedback from users, developers, and distribution packagers.
Alongside the new alpha is a freshly-spun ISO of Pop!_OS 24.04 (Alpha), making it easy to check out the changes for yourself on a spare partition, USB drive, or virtual machine. But the COSMIC DE alphas are available on other distros too, including Arch Linux.
As for what’s new in COSMIC Alpha 4, read on.
ZDNeT (Jack Wallen):
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System76 just took everything that was good in Pop!_OS and made it even better | ZDNET
When System76 announced that it would be creating a new Linux desktop environment from scratch and using the Rust programming language, I was skeptical, not in the company's ability to deliver but the reason behind the choice. Pop!_OS has been an outstanding OS to date, a perfect re-imagining of the GNOME desktop (from which it was based) that was efficient and easy to use.
Then, I started seeing the early mockups and realized the company wasn't reinventing the wheel. It was re-creating what it already had… only without the GNOME dependencies.
That's when it all made sense. By creating the OS in-house, it could tweak it to the exact specifications needed so that it would run beautifully on its hardware. And given the speed of Rust, it also made perfect sense that it'd use that particular language to build its new platform.