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System76 Unveils COSMIC as Their GNOME-Based Desktop Environment for Pop!_OS Linux

Submitted by Marius Nestor on Tuesday 13th of April 2021 08:22:41 PM Filed under
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System76 are well known for their Linux-powered laptops and desktops, but they’re also famous for Pop!_OS Linux, the company’s in-house built Ubuntu-based distribution that ships pre-installed on all of their computers.

Until now, Pop!_OS Linux featured the GNOME desktop environment, with various customizations and improvements from System76. But this is about to change with the next major release of their distribution, Pop!_OS Linux 21.04, due out in June 2021.

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Pop!_OS Linux Introduces a GNOME-based ‘COSMIC’ Desktop

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Wednesday 14th of April 2021 09:44:06 AM.

  • Pop!_OS Linux Introduces a GNOME-based ‘COSMIC’ Desktop Environment

    Pop!_OS has been my daily driver until I recently switched to Linux Mint to experience Cinnamon.

    If you have used Pop!_OS by System76, you probably know that it is based on Ubuntu releases with LTS and non-LTS editions.

    While I always believed that Pop!_OS does a few things better than Ubuntu, they also announced that they are crafting a separate Desktop Environment ‘COSMIC‘ based on GNOME.

There's no place like GNOME: System 76 introduces COSMIC

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Thursday 15th of April 2021 02:34:56 PM.

  • There's no place like GNOME: System 76 introduces COSMIC desktop GUI for its Pop!_OS Linux

    System76, a US company which markets laptops, PCs and servers running Linux, is developing a new GNOME-based desktop GUI called COSMIC for its Pop!_OS distribution.

    System76 has its own Linux distribution, called Pop!_OS, which is based on Ubuntu, though with a customised installer and drive encryption by default. The company said it is now developing COSMIC (Computer Operating System Main Interface Components) in time for the next release of Pop!_OS in June. This will be called version 21.04, based on the Ubuntu 21.04 release expected later this month.

    [...]

    "The split views allow you to access the application picker in a single click," said the post about COSMIC.

    There is also a change to the behaviour of the Super key (another name for the Windows key on PC keyboards), which will now activate the application launcher by default.

GitHub still an issue

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Thursday 15th of April 2021 06:40:56 PM.
  • System76’s COSMIC Desktop Coming in June [Ed: System76 needs to delete GitHub to avoid the perception it’s boosting Microsoft monopoly and proprietary software (people buy their hardware for the opposite goal)]

    Denver-based System76 has announced preliminary details of their upcoming COSMIC desktop environment, which will arrive in the June 2021 release of Pop!_OS 21.04.

    According to the blog post, System76 will provide “a honed desktop user experience in Pop!_OS through our GNOME-based desktop environment: COSMIC.” The design has been refined through extensive testing and user feedback, resulting in greater ease of use and efficiency.

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