System76 Launches First Stable Release of COSMIC Desktop and Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS

This week System76 launched the first stable release of its Rust-based COSMIC desktop environment. Announced in 2021, it’s designed for all GNU/Linux distributions — and it shipping with Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS (based on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS).

An anonymous reader shared this report from 9to5Linux:

Previous Pop!_OS releases used a version of the COSMIC desktop that was based on the GNOME desktop environment. However, System76 wanted to create a new desktop environment from…