Carl Richell

Screenshot of COSMIC Store on the Steam application page and addons section visible.

COSMIC Store now supports app addons.

I love this laptop. Had the opportunity to work on it for a few weeks and it's a pleasure to use. Wonderful screen. Wonderful keyboard. AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 & NVIDIA RTX 5070 make a perfect combination. I like my 14" Darter but I can feel the tug from this one.

xdg-surface-shape-v1 has been submitted to wayland-protocols. The protocol provides a method for clients to communicate their corner radii to the server/compositor and thus enable clean outlines around windows made with additional toolkits. gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayl...

COSMIC desktop with two windows and an outline around the focused window.

COSMIC apps border outline now matches the corner radius.

The work is based on conversations to establish a corner radius wayland protocol. We'll submit our draft protocol soon. If accepted and adopted, compositors will be able to render clean borders around more apps in the Linux ecosystem.

COSMIC desktop with custom theme and icons.

COSMIC desktop with custom theme and icons with the Application library open to Games.

COSMIC 🔥

Interesting fact: AMD+NVIDIA hybrid laptops require Wayland. This is because the latest AMD Radeon integrated GPUs are not VGA compatible and hybrid won't work in that configuration on X11 (everything runs on the dGPU).

A community-built COSMIC Calendar app is in the works.

Making COSMIC in Rust required building the fundamental capability to create a desktop environment. This included text rendering and a complete toolkit of high-level components with deep platform integration. That foundation now makes it easy to build apps, applets, and components for COSMIC.

I love Borderland 4. I'm playing co-op with my son and it's a blast.

Pop!_OS New COSMIC Keyboard Shortcuts Learn how master using COSMIC with your keyboard.

Here are useful keyboard shortcuts for the new COSMIC beta: support.system76.com/articles/pop...

COSMIC screenshot with a COSMIC robot wallpaper, custom icons and matching color scheme.

COSMIC screenshot with a COSMIC robot wallpaper, custom icons and matching color scheme.

Check out this awesome COSMIC theme github.com/SethStormR/D...

For all the night owls out there, COSMIC and Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS Beta has been released. Go forth and discover 🚀

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We're setting up Weblate for COSMIC translations. Coverage is already surprisingly strong given that they're all manual PRs.

* Arabic 72%
* Bulgarian 92%
* Chinese 98%
* Hindi 75%

And my personal favorite, Occidental with 45%.

Thanks for hosting COSMIC @weblate.org!

Arriving soon

Keycap with a shine-though COSMIC logo.

How about your COSMIC theme automatically matching your cycling wallpaper and your Launch keyboard LEDs syncing at the same time?

*DisplayLink* Docks.

Laptop with two displays attached via a DisplayPort dock.

cosmic-comp now supports software rendering which improves the experience in virtual machines and notably adds support for DisplayPort docks!

COSMIC and Pop 24.04 Beta will be released September 25th.

User testing is great for sanity checking assumptions, learning where to improve, and avoiding user frustration. We conducted a small round this week. It revealed a couple areas to polish but overall the users took to COSMIC easily. We're looking good.

COSMIC Store now supports managing Flatpak repos including adding custom sources. This was necessary to add COSMIC applets in the Store. Many distros prefer not to include additional sources but are cool with features that allow users to add them themselves.

Whipped up an Alien Earth COSMIC theme. cosmic-themes.org/182/

COSMIC supports VIM shortcuts for window actions and desktop features. Every action can be configured with multiple shortcuts. Out of the box, HJKL or arrow keys can be used to change window focus, move windows, and switch workspaces.

Shortcuts can be customized in Settings.

Transform your COSMIC desktop look and layout in ~one minute. No grabbing hex colors or dotfiles to mess with (all settings are stored in plaintext files if you prefer that).

I like the music on this one but what do ya'll think?

Happy birthday, Linux! @system76.bsky.social wouldn't be here without you ❤️

Pop!_OS 24.04 pre-beta running COSMIC on the Thelio Astra ARM64 desktop.

I didn't start reading book series until The Three Body Problem. I thought there were too many great books to get lost in a long series. Now I enjoy losing myself in the bigger worlds they create.

I'm looking forward to filling out the Saga! It's entertaining.

I haven't read The Expanse yet. I really need to.

I finished the Red Rising trilogy last night. It's violent, bloody sci-fi that's packed with action. The last book hit a point where I couldn't put it down until it was over.

This is our purpose at System76. The entirely liberated PC. Our goal is ambitious and will take more than a lifetime. That’s a life well lived. We just need to get the ball rolling fast enough that the momentum continues.