{"id":224689,"date":"2026-03-17T14:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/17\/i-replaced-gnome-with-the-new-cosmic-and-it-feels-like-the-future-of-linux\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T14:35:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T18:35:08","slug":"i-replaced-gnome-with-the-new-cosmic-and-it-feels-like-the-future-of-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/17\/i-replaced-gnome-with-the-new-cosmic-and-it-feels-like-the-future-of-linux\/","title":{"rendered":"I replaced GNOME with the new COSMIC, and it feels like the future of Linux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/replaced-gnome-with-cosmic-on-ubuntu-feels-like-future-of-linux\/\">I replaced GNOME with the new COSMIC, and it feels like the future of Linux<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/replaced-gnome-with-cosmic-on-ubuntu-feels-like-future-of-linux\/\">https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/replaced-gnome-with-cosmic-on-ubuntu-feels-like-future-of-linux\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-17 14:30:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.makeuseof.com\">www.makeuseof.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>GNOME has been my default Ubuntu desktop for years. It\u2019s stable, polished, and widely supported. If you install Ubuntu, GNOME is simply part of the deal. It works well enough that most people never feel the need to replace it. But lately, I keep hearing whispers about something new: the COSMIC desktop. Originally developed by System76 for Pop!_OS, COSMIC has evolved into a completely new desktop environment built from scratch. Not a theme, not a fork, but an entirely new stack, largely written in Rust and designed around modern Linux workflows. Naturally, my curiosity won.<\/p>\n<p>So I did what any reasonable Linux user would do. I replaced GNOME with COSMIC on my Ubuntu machine just to see what would happen. What I expected was a fun experiment. What I found instead was something that genuinely feels like the next generation of Linux desktops.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"installing-cosmic-on-ubuntu-was-surprisingly-painless\">\n                        Installing COSMIC on Ubuntu was surprisingly painless<br \/>\n               <\/h2>\n<h3 id=\"swapping-desktops-without-breaking-everything\">\n            Swapping desktops without breaking everything<br \/>\n    <\/h3>\n<p> Let&#8217;s make something clear before we dive in: On my Ubuntu machine, I run 24.04 (LTS). I hear that users running later editions may run into some issues installing COSMIC.<\/p>\n<p>Switching Linux desktop environments always comes with a small dose of anxiety. Anyone who has experimented with desktop hopping knows the risks. Dependency conflicts, broken login managers, and random graphical glitches that leave you staring at a blinking cursor, wondering&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/replaced-gnome-with-cosmic-on-ubuntu-feels-like-future-of-linux\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I replaced GNOME with the new COSMIC, and it feels like the future of Linux&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":224690,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static0.makeuseofimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/wm\/2026\/03\/cosmic-fi.jpg?w=1600&h=900&fit=crop","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[71,79],"class_list":["post-224689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-linux","tag-linux","tag-ubuntu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224689"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224689"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":224691,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224689\/revisions\/224691"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}