{"id":261354,"date":"2026-06-01T15:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T19:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/01\/cosmic-looked-like-the-future-of-linux-desktops-switching-to-it-was-a-mistake-i-didnt-see-coming\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T15:55:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T19:55:13","slug":"cosmic-looked-like-the-future-of-linux-desktops-switching-to-it-was-a-mistake-i-didnt-see-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/01\/cosmic-looked-like-the-future-of-linux-desktops-switching-to-it-was-a-mistake-i-didnt-see-coming\/","title":{"rendered":"COSMIC looked like the future of Linux desktops \u2014 switching to it was a mistake I didn&#8217;t see coming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/cosmic-looked-like-future-linux-desktops-switching-was-mistake-didnt-see\/\">COSMIC looked like the future of Linux desktops \u2014 switching to it was a mistake I didn&#8217;t see coming<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/cosmic-looked-like-future-linux-desktops-switching-was-mistake-didnt-see\/\">https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/cosmic-looked-like-future-linux-desktops-switching-was-mistake-didnt-see\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-01 15:30:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.makeuseof.com\">www.makeuseof.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve been having fun switching through tiling window managers recently, but I do often find myself being drawn back to the \u201cjust works\u201d nature of a proper desktop environment.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s barely any tiling options that work well enough on KDE, and while Tiling Shell is a very close alternative to GNOME, I\u2019ve grown to become weary of GNOME in general. Enter COSMIC, a brand new desktop environment from System76, being built using Rust.<\/p>\n<p>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\u2019t see myself recommending COSMIC just yet.<\/p>\n<p>                    <span data-field=\"label\" class=\"article-card-label\">Related<\/span><\/p>\n<h5 class=\"display-card-title \">\n<p>\t\t\tI left GNOME for COSMIC, tried KDE next, and only one felt right in the end<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p class=\"display-card-excerpt\">Nothing is truly perfect.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"cosmic-feels-like-beta-software-and-that-rsquo-s-not-unintentional\">\n                        COSMIC feels like beta software, and that\u2019s not unintentional<br \/>\n               <\/h2>\n<h3 id=\"it-39-s-not-stable-for-a-reason\">\n            It&#8217;s not stable for a reason<br \/>\n    <\/h3>\n<p> &#8230;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/cosmic-looked-like-future-linux-desktops-switching-was-mistake-didnt-see\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COSMIC looked like the future of Linux desktops \u2014 switching to it was a mistake&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":261356,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static0.makeuseofimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/wm\/2026\/05\/cosmic-desktop.jpg?w=1600&h=900&fit=crop","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[71],"class_list":["post-261354","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\/261354"}],"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=261354"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":261357,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261354\/revisions\/261357"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}