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Pop!_OS 24.04 ships with COSMIC Desktop, a new desktop environment built entirely in Rust by System76. The review covers installation, automatic window tiling, customizable panels and docks, and keyboard shortcuts. Despite being based on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, the distribution maintains modern hardware support through backported kernels and current applications via Flatpak. COSMIC delivers fast performance, extensive customization without config file editing, and proves that building a production-ready desktop environment from scratch is achievable.

Pop!_OS 24.04 review: Was the two-year wait for COSMIC Desktop worth it?

I used to use Pop but the 3+ year wait for DE which is barely out of alpha just isn’t it for me.

I had been on Pop since 2023, but their updates borked the nvidia driver and it failed to boot last November. Had moved away from it since then.

I use it on a system and it’s pretty good for how new it is.

Almost all apps don’t get icons in the task switch, the task switch bar is extremely ugly. I simply fail to see any benefits here, it isn’t bad. I am just not seeing any benefits over running f.ex. Gnome. Feel free to enlighten me.