Update 1: PRE-ALPHA RUST Cosmic Desktop on Pop!_OS 🔥

Today we'll take a look at the new RUST Cosmic Desktop by System76.

WARNING: This is still in PRE-ALPHA, and I did have the greeter break on me as you will see in the video. I would not recommend this on a production machine. Only install this to test it out.

Chapters
00:00 Intro
00:17 Setup COSMIC
02:15 Neofetch
03:05 COSMIC Settings
05:56 COSMIC Text Editor
07:15 COSMIC Screenshot
08:15 COSMIC Files
10:15 COSMIC App Store
12:23 Outro

#linux #popos #cosmicdesktop #rustprogramming

[RafaelUbaldo]

This guy is officially the Bob Ross of the Linux community

[saberspecter]

I'm new to Linux and plan on using this upon release as it's a really nice desktop environment. I will probably use Ubuntu 24.04 to get used to things beforehand but I like where Cosmic is headed.

[gregwillis]

Great instructions, thanks. Did take me a few tries to do "CNTRL+O", then remember to press "ENTER" before "CNTRL+X". I also got a dialog box afterwards asking me to select gdm3 or Cosmic. I like the customization, though I would like to have the option to display the time in ISO 8601, yyyy:mm:dd rather than just 24hr clock.

[spreadneck]

Actually you're just supposed to comment the WaylandEnable=false line, since it says to uncomment it to force X. But that works too.

[maxarendorff]

This does look interesting. I might try it when it comes out and switch over from Gnome for a bit.

[MinaSchloch]

I dont know your hardware, but I test the Atomic Fedora image with COSMIC and the apps start immediately.

And that runs from an external SATA SSD over a USB 3.0 adapter.

Maybe the Fedora packages are better? But be lack of SELinux support prevent using it on a normal system.

[k.b.tidwell]

Good choice of background music. It makes the whole desktop experience there feel pretty chill.

But what's the actual benefit to using this desktop?

[lmotaku]

Pop OS and Ubuntu look super similar and as of 22.04 I found Nvidia drivers work just fine.
Also think Debian has just been a rock star the last few years. Is the Pop OS benefit the driver switcher?

I have good news for you. I was able to get QEMU and a proper IOMMU passthrough setup going with the iGPU for the Linux desktop and dGPU for the emulation/Windows. Only issue was corporate policies over there at BattleEye. (Won't let you play games through a VM) So now I am pretty sure Linux won't be my problem in the future, just companies being weird. GTX 10 series and above has the required tech.

[Noname........]

what about gnome extenstion or widgets

[aliancemd]

They need some soft animations, otherwise this feels like XFCE and not a modern DE that gives you feedback when you interact with a GUI element.

[johnsimon]

agh. Doesn't support high dpi(?) and the sometimes windows don't appear. Don't install this on a work laptop - better off trying it out on a VM. Pre-alpha means pre-alpha
Was able to back out with `apt remove cosmic-*` - needs some more time to cook. BUT I forget how much work goes into a desktop environment. It's good progress overall.
I currently have cosmic-term installed and it's fine enough.

[davidwayne]

I DISABLE Wayland... NOTHING works in wayland. I have had this since I found out about it a week or two back and it works PERFECTLY--- if I leave it in X11 and NOT Wayland. I have ARTIX on here also with the NEW kde6 in it-- and it Works perfectly-- INCLUDING the auto- tiling script-- IF -- I F I leave WAYLAND off!!! NOTHING works right in WAYLAND-- and when I turn it off- everything I had issues with works FINE!!! WAYLAND is a crock. It's only good for gaming anyway- and I don't do gaming.