First powder day

Wayland to Xwayland (and in reverse) drag and drop has been added to cosmic-comp. Now you can drag and drop files from COSMIC Files to X11 apps like Slack and Discord, etc.

Window shadows and clipping (for uniform border radii across apps) coming soon to COSMIC.

Origami Linux - built with COSMIC and Fedora Atomic. github.com/john-holt4/O...

CuteCosmic - Plugins to the Qt toolkit that help make Qt (and KDE) applications look and feel more at home in the COSMIC™ Desktop environment. github.com/IgKh/cutecos...

Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS and COSMIC Epoch 1 will be release December 11th, 2025. Future Pop!_OS releases, starting with Pop!_OS 26.04 LTS, will now align with the Ubuntu LTS release timing (approximately two weeks after the Ubuntu release date).

It was nice to see friends, colleagues and new tech at #UbuntuSummit. All the talks were great. I particularly enjoyed @jenson.org UX design talk.

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 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 🔥

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.

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

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 🚀 system76.com

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!

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

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 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.

The computer is the ultimate foundational technology. Progress toward abundant energy, access to clean water, healthy food, and a deeper understanding of our world and universe are all accelerated by computers. Faster computation means faster progress.

I change themes constantly but sometimes one feels perfect and sticks around longer.

We're preparing COSMIC features videos for the upcoming beta. This is COSMIC Workspaces unedited on a dual-monitor setup. One of the coolest feature is grabbing an entire workspace on one display and dropping it on any other.

Check out the COSMIC talk @carlrichell.bsky.social and I did at Open Source Summit recently! www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBcf...

Snowshoed 14 miles through backcounty with my son this weekend. It was incredible.

There's a new Fedora spin in town :-) fedoraproject.org/spins/cosmic Congrats to the @fedora.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy project on their excellent Fedora Linux 42 release.

Alpha 7 will be the last COSMIC alpha release. Then on to Beta!

Another #Linux 101. This time I take a moment to discuss why System76's COSMIC desktop is going to make some serious noise. @carlrichell.bsky.social ... this is for you, my friend. youtu.be/rl7oS_xFuc4?...

Come see me at the PNY booth if you're at GTC!

COSMIC now features popups for the App Tray and icons in the panel to more easily identify apps.

Thanks for having me on!

We're delaying the COSMIC alpha 6 release by one week to complete a few features we'd like to get in. The release is now planned for February 20th.

Watching COSMIC reviews and discussions is my favorite ways to glean development priorities. While I read every bug (in due course), ideas and issues that come up are top-of-mind and important to the people using COSMIC and who care about its success. youtu.be/a-k22P-YkGU?...

Good morning

The moose came to visit our deer.

Giving Bluesky an honest shot... liking all Elden Ring posts to help the algo.