COSMIC’s first big update in six months continues stripping GNOME out of the OS
COSMIC’s first big update in six months continues stripping GNOME out of the OS
Publish Date: 2026-06-25 14:22:00
Source Domain: www.xda-developers.com
Summary
- COSMIC is being rebuilt from scratch in Rust, shedding GNOME ties.
- v1.0 dropped GNOME’s Shell, Nautilus, Terminal, and Control Center back in Dec 2025.
- COSMIC Epoch 1.1.0 replaces GNOME System Monitor with COSMIC Monitor; Pop!_OS will switch soon.
Near the end of 2025, the developers behind Pop!_OS’s desktop environment, COSMIC, made a big decision. When they added COSMIC, it was a little more than a modified GNOME environment; however, they began to realise that they’d be better off making their own from scratch using Rust.
As such, in December of 2025, the developers began stripping COSMIC of its GNOME apps, but they didn’t quite get every tool. Now, with a new COSMIC Epoch update, the team has removed another GNOME remnant in its quest to make COSMIC its own thing.
COSMIC Epoch 1.1.0 gets rid of the GNOME System Monitor
Over on the COSMIC GitHub, the development team, System76, revealed the release of COSMIC Epoch 1.1.0. While COSMIC has received a trickle of updates over the past few months, this update is the first time that System76 has bumped up…
