COSMIC looked like the future of Linux desktops — switching to it was a mistake I didn’t see coming
COSMIC looked like the future of Linux desktops — switching to it was a mistake I didn’t see coming
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Publish Date: 2026-06-01 15:30:00
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I’ve been having fun switching through tiling window managers recently, but I do often find myself being drawn back to the “just works” nature of a proper desktop environment.
There’s barely any tiling options that work well enough on KDE, and while Tiling Shell is a very close alternative to GNOME, I’ve grown to become weary of GNOME in general. Enter COSMIC, a brand new desktop environment from System76, being built using Rust.
COSMIC is notable for having an auto-tiling toggle built-in, and it looked like the perfect alternative. Unfortunately, it soon proved to be an ordeal, and I don’t see myself recommending COSMIC just yet.
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I left GNOME for COSMIC, tried KDE next, and only one felt right in the end
Nothing is truly perfect.
COSMIC feels like beta software, and that’s not unintentional
It’s not stable for a reason
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