Pop!_OS NEW COSMIC DESKTOP ENVIRONMENT IS *MIND BLOWING*

This is the first look at pop OS cosmic desktop written in a rust programming language. It's a brand new desktop environment for pop os and other linux distros. Cosmic stands as an independent desktop just like GNOME and KDE Plasma offering a unique experience for linux users. As of making this video, the cosmic desktop is in the alpha stage, preparing for release in the coming months.

As of now, you can try the cosmic initial release called EPOCH on Fedora, Pop, and Arch Linux which gives an idea about the future desktop for linux systems. I have been testing this for quite some time on my computer and In this video, I will share my experience with the cosmic desktop. 
 
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*My System Specs*
HP Pavilion Gaming Laptop
(CPU) AMD 5600H 6 Core 12 Threads @4.2GHZ Max With AMD Radeon Graphics (iGPU)
(RAM) 24GB CL22 DDR4 @3200MHZ 
(SSD) 500GB Samsung EVO NVME 
(GPU) NVIDIA RTX 3050 4GB DDR5 VRAM

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[cloudwolf]

Many people miss the point about the project. System76 just disagreed with GNOME's direction and decided to do their own thing. It seems they are trying to do Gnome with customization.

I also think a distro that wants to give its users an crafted experience needs to have control over their desktop environment just like Linux Mint has with Cinnamon.

And the best: It's the first Floating DE that supports and has Tiling as Key Feature. Other distros like KDE and Gnome have addons/applets/extensions for some time just to break it in future updates.

Cosmic is also in development and their focus is usability, ofc it won't look good for now. Wait for full release to critize visuals.

[roccociccone]

As much as I like COSMIC they really need to overhaul the design language. I hope that as we close in on the full release it will look better.

[Parvez]

It reminds me of a Modern Version of XFCE, which is good because XFCE is light weight and resource efficient.

[Sim-rhtj]

Looks great. Will certainly try it out when ready.

[pauldavison]

It looks like it’s been heavily influenced by GNOME. Still, it looks amazing. It looks like Pop OS is trying to make using Linux easier for new users. I look forward to seeing where this desktop manager goes.

[davebassi]

This project is in its infancy.
I see a bright future for it.
But for now, Gnome 46 FTW!

[Practical-IT]

I like the direction they are going with this. I hope they can get the remaining features added and stable to get a release out this year. I will definitely try it out in a VM and once it gets to at least a beta I will install it on physical hardware.

[lorenbufanu]

The things I personally expect from this:

1. Give me a KDE like appearance / functionality. Grouping icons to be optional, etc.... KDE nailed it, Windows xp/7 peaked at that.
2.Give me a file manager that is simple, stable and modern (tabs, layout etc).
3. Let me have themes back, like in the XP days. But modern, of course. We, "old timers" miss it!

[andermetalbrasil]

That's beautiful. I can't wait to use it in my computer.

[avalagum]

At 1:51, the memory usage is 969MB: not very bad but not very good either. The terminal looks nice: the menu, the window title and the window button (close, maximize, minimize) are on the same line. However, if the gap between the top edge and the window title, menu, buttons can be configurable, then it's perfect.
The dock at the bottom is a waste of screen estate. Is there any option to put those icons on the top panel?

[Cavi]

I wouldn't call it mind blowing, BUT it really is shaping up to be an amazing DE. COSMIC being so new has it's pros and cons. It is definitely good that it's being built with modern standards in mind so they won't have to deal with a ton of legacy code. But on the other hand they won't have the years of polish and development which means that we'll see many bugs in early releases, but that's how it has to be. I'll put it on a non-critical secondary computer first so that I can use it and give feedback/bug reports but potential problems won't affect my main system and the work I do on it.

[LorenzoBettini]

I seem to understand there's no mechanism for desktop file searching (like tracker in Gnome and Baloo in KDE), is that right?

[leobardek]

Love it! Looks sooo much better then gnome, gonna test it myself, looks like finally found perfect DE for me

[FrederikFeichtmeier]

Absolutely awesome development. The padding, sizes, placement of elements and colours need a lot of work though. Anyways, amazing work

[VeitLehmann]

It surely still needs a lot of polish, but they got the foundations right. It will handle multiple screens nicely, it combines the benefits of tiling and floating window managers, it's build on solid technologies, with a great approach to theming. I guess the rest basically will fall into place very soon. Really looking forward to a bright future!

[rawmaterials]

For now, it looks like it will be a nice alternative for those who like GNOME look and feel but doesn't want to deal with GNOME devs idiotic decisions. If I'll ever want a similar desktop I'll certainly try cosmic instead of GNOME.

[MinaSchloch]

Very nice video! Hope you didnt get the xz backdoor, as COSMIC is now also fully packaged fot F39 (F40 is fixed for now too).

It is a really nice project. Some things that are missing for me:
- ability to set traditional bottom panel with different icon sizes (the app icons are either tiny or everything is huge)
- I think I prefer the GNOME workspaces a lot
- stacking windows (you forgot to show that) works awesome, but only in tiling mode afaik

[dipanjanpalchowdhury]

It seems to me that the emphasis for this DE is tiling window manager, looks promising though.

[Adamy-]

Can't wait to try it, hope there will be an easy way to install it on Ubuntu 24.04 😅

[ZephyrCheez]

Would try but I'm on Arch and apparently the person who packaged it in the aur has it configured poorly and it's missing a lot of stuff