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System76's Upcoming COSMIC Desktop is Gearing Up With Big Changes

Posted by Rianne Schestowitz on Feb 01, 2023,

updated Feb 01, 2023

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The developers of Pop!_OS started working on their Rust-based desktop environment 'COSMIC' back in 2021.

The goal was to make something familiar to what you already get with Pop!_OS but provide you with a faster and more extensible desktop environment.

System76 also chose not to release Pop!_OS 22.10 to focus on its development.

Not to forget, one of our community contributors gave an early build a try, which looked pretty promising.

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More On COSMIC DE To Kick Off 2023!

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> For those of you who don’t know, System76 is moving the feel and front-end functionality of Pop!_OS to a faster codebase, giving you a familiar, but snappier, experience. And I’m here to update you all on the new features and designs the System76 team is building along the way. Once we have a date for you to try out this new desktop environment in a public alpha, I’ll give you that too :)

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