{"id":231061,"date":"2026-04-04T06:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T10:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/04\/cosmic-desktop-is-incredible-but-its-not-ready-yet\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T07:25:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T11:25:10","slug":"cosmic-desktop-is-incredible-but-its-not-ready-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/04\/cosmic-desktop-is-incredible-but-its-not-ready-yet\/","title":{"rendered":"COSMIC desktop is incredible, but its not ready yet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/cosmic-desktop-incredible-but-not-ready\/\">COSMIC desktop is incredible, but its not ready yet<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/cosmic-desktop-incredible-but-not-ready\/\">https:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/cosmic-desktop-incredible-but-not-ready\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-04-04 06:30:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.howtogeek.com\">www.howtogeek.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Linux has more than a dozen different desktop environments available, and a big part of what differentiates distros is how they choose to customize those desktop environments. POP!_OS used GNOME for most of its history, but in late 2025, they released an entirely new desktop environment called COSMIC.<\/p>\n<p>I used it for a few days to see how it shaped up to classics like GNOME, Cinnamon, and KDE.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"what-is-cosmic\">\n                        What is COSMIC?<br \/>\n               <\/h2>\n<h3 id=\"a-bold-new-desktop-environment\">\n            A bold new desktop environment<br \/>\n    <\/h3>\n<p> COSMIC (Computer Operating System Main Interface Components) is the new desktop environment that System76 is developing for Pop!OS.<\/p>\n<p>COSMIC was originally derived from the GNOME desktop environment, and if you put the two side by side, you can see GNOME&#8217;s influence on some of the design choices.<\/p>\n<p>However, the similarities are fairly cosmetic. Once I started digging in, I found a desktop environment that was quite different.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"there-is-rust-in-cosmic\">\n            There is Rust in COSMIC<br \/>\n    <\/h3>\n<p>Part of what makes COSMIC different and interesting in the long term, is the fact that it is written in Rust.<\/p>\n<p>Rust is an object-oriented programming language that is increasingly positioned to be a replacement for C and C++. Microsoft has started using Rust for important parts of the Windows operating system, and they&#8217;re aiming to gradually transition over the next several years.<\/p>\n<p>One of Rust&#8217;s big selling points as a programming language is that it is &#8220;memory safe,&#8221; which it achieves by&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/cosmic-desktop-incredible-but-not-ready\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COSMIC desktop is incredible, but its not ready yet https:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/cosmic-desktop-incredible-but-not-ready\/ Publish Date: 2026-04-04 06:30:00 Source&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":231062,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static0.howtogeekimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/wm\/2026\/01\/a-computer-monitor-showing-apps-open-on-a-cosmic-linux-desktop.jpg?w=1600&h=900&fit=crop","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[71],"class_list":["post-231061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-linux","tag-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231061"}],"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=231061"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":231063,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231061\/revisions\/231063"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}