Perhaps the most perverse consequence of age verification laws: many require advertising the age bracket of the user to the open web. Children will be known to be children even to those that would exploit that information without regard for any other "safety" law.
The system76 position on age attestation and verification laws:
blog.system76.com/post/system7...
The system76 support experience.
"I replied at 12:01 with the details they needed. At 12:08, Alex K. from support escalated me to hardware RMA. Seven minutes. I've never seen that in decades of enterprise support."
blog.vintagetechie.com/one-week-doo...
Picture of architectural mesh incorporated into sheet metal.
Architectural mesh is incorporated into the new Thelio Mira design. It adds beauty and texture to the design and functionally increases airflow over typical vents cut into sheet metal.
#MiraMarch
Ground-up redesigned @system76 Thelio hardware coming soon.
☑️ 10 months of design and engineering
☑️ Over 16,000 durability test runs
☑️ Over 250 hours of thermal testing and optimization
#MiraMarch
Screenshot of COSMIC Terminal with the Keyboard shortcuts side pane open.
COSMIC Terminal now has customizable keyboard shortcuts. Available through Pop!_OS updates now and arriving in other distros after the COSMIC release tag 2/10 and packaging.
COSMIC community Frosted Glass experiments with WIP code. Still a long way to go but you can get an idea of where we're headed.
Night light will be a after. We're building a Vulcan renderer into cosmic-comp for that and HDR.
COSMIC Frosted Glass effect design mockups.
COSMIC desktop on Pop!_OS with rounded corners and matching accent on two non-COSMIC apps.
COSMIC now features rounded corners and window shadow on all apps. Update Pop for the latest. It'll arrive in your favorite distro soon.
Options are in Settings > Appearance > Window shadow and corners
Hades 2 is fantastic and a lot of fun. I haven't played a rogue-like game and wondered if it would feel tedious. Not at all.
Skinning up a mountain at the crack of dawn is a beautiful experience.
Jeremy and I discuss COSMIC, Pop 24.04, the Linux desktop and the importance of a diverse software ecosystem on the Dual Boot Diaries.
youtu.be/7JX6xWg5lx4?...
Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS now includes ISOs for ARM devices and is fully supported on the System76 Thelio Astra. system76.com/desktops/the...
It's a quite incredible OS experience on Thelio Astra.
The ARM ISOs should work on Tow-Boot supported devices tow-boot.org/devices/inde...
Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS w/ the new COSMIC desktop is available for download and available pre-loaded on all System76 hardware.
system76.com/pop/
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.
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.
