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COSMIC 1.4 Desktop Environment Introduces New Default Sound Theme
Coming only a week after COSMIC 1.3, which introduced the highly anticipated Frosted Glass effect, the COSMIC 1.4 release is here to introduce a new default sound theme, improve screen edge pointer accuracy with fractional scaling, improve NetworkManager support, and add xdg-desktop-portal-cosmic as a system service.
COSMIC 1.4 improves the COSMIC Files file manager to fall back to GIO on destination open failure for MTP copies and better detect the trash directory, and improves the COSMIC Monitor system monitor to allow switching CPU and GPU graph types, design updates, and collect GPU frequency.
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COSMIC Desktop 1.4.0 Released with Enhanced System Monitor
COSMIC, the default desktop environment for System76’s Pop!_OS, released new 1.4.0 version today.
The new version of this free open-source Linux desktop, code-name “Epoch”, introduced some new features for its core system monitor app, and fixed various issues.
To make the desktop work correctly on more Linux systems, the new version now tells “I’m ready” to any compatible service manager that is listening, instead of only telling systemd.
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Pop!_OS's COSMIC just got a frosted glass desktop style, and it looks amazing
When people discuss which Linux operating system they prefer, they rightfully focus on the distro itself. It's the beating heart of the system, so it's naturally what people gravitate toward first when recommending a system. However, the desktop environment is also a huge part of it; if the distro is the core, then the desktop environment is what people use to interact with it, and a bad environment can put people off.