https://system76.com/pop/download/

Release Notes

  • Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS includes the new COSMIC Desktop Environment, designed and developed by System76.

  • Some GNOME apps are replaced by COSMIC apps

    • GNOME Files (Nautilus) > COSMIC Files
    • GNOME Terminal > COSMIC Terminal
    • GNOME Text Editor > COSMIC Text Editor
    • GNOME Media Player (Totem) > COSMIC Media Player

  • Pop!_Shop is replaced by COSMIC Store

  • Key components

    • COSMIC Epoch 1
    • Linux kernel 6.17.9
    • Mesa 25.1.5-1
    • NVIDIA Driver 580

  • Some games may start partially off-screen. Press F11 or Super+F11 to fullscreen the game

  • Display toggle hotkeys and an on-screen display is not supported yet

  • COSMIC has a built-in screenshot tool. If you require annotations, we recommend Flameshot, which can be installed from Flathub via COSMIC Store. Version 13.1 or higher is required for COSMIC

  • COSMIC is not currently optimized for touch devices. An on-screen-keyboard is in development.

  • The COSMIC Desktop will be continuously updated with new features and improvements after release

  • Kernels and hardware support are continuously updated in Pop!_OS

  • You can follow COSMIC DE feature and improvement progress on the project board

  • LeFantome@programming.dev
    4·
    10 hours ago

    I am very curious to see what kind of uptake COSMIC gets.

    It seems like a nice compromise between the overly locked-down simplicity of GNOME and the complexity of KDE. And it balances tiling with stacking really well.

  • cygnus@lemmy.ca
    21·
    17 hours ago

    Awesome, congrats to the team. I don’t use it anymore but I’ll always have a soft spot for PopOS as being the distro that finally made me a Linux fulltimer. I really wish KDE would implement their tiling system.

    • LeFantome@programming.dev
      7·
      11 hours ago

      Agreed.

      What is even stranger, but great, is that they plan to release a 26.04 LTS in 4 months.

      That will be the start of the real next generation for Pop!OS. We should get a real sense of where System76 wants to go with COSMIC then. Today is all about getting a minimally viable system into production so people can start to use it. Making 24.04 an LTS means that people do not have to hold off until next year.

  • panda_abyss@lemmy.ca
    6·
    18 hours ago

    I like Cosmic, it was a little janky with steam windows when I tried it, but everything else was very nice.

    Liked the hot keys, tiling, theming, and a decent built in terminal.

  • Buffalox@lemmy.world
    1·
    17 hours ago

    to some disappointment is still using Mesa 25.1 series graphics drivers

    Good call IMO, my distro just upgraded to MESA 25.3, and I’ve had problems with black screens in games since that. I even tried switching to older kernels and since it’s apparently not the kernel, my guess is on the MESA driver.

    PS:
    I use a Radeon RX 6600 XT GPU, and it has worked fine for years before the upgrade.
    I checked the cabling first, and that the card was firmly socketed, but they are fine, and it clearly happened after the kernel/MESA upgrade??? It doesn’t happen in desktop, only in games.

    • dbkblk@lemmy.world
      3·
      14 hours ago

      I have a 6700XT and was using Debian Testing (it was trixie), it was super stable, then it became to be extremely unstable around april 2025. I think it was a mix a buggy mesa update and a buggy kernel update. It was so awful that I had to remove Debian :( (multiple full freeze a day). I went full Gentoo and it was super stable. I tried trixie again some days ago and it was still extremely unstable, unfortunately… (only on this machine, the others work fine). Mesa 25.3 has fixed a “turn page flip error” on these cards, but not everything is smooth.