COSMIC is a Wayland desktop environment for Linux that is written in Rust with Smithay and Iced. COSMIC applications are developed with the libcosmic platform toolkit, which is based on iced. They are cross-platform and supported on Windows, Mac, and Redox OS in addition to Linux.
As COSMIC nears its alpha release in Q1 of 2024, we have thus far developed a terminal, file manager, and text editor for our desktop environment within the last few months.
- https://github.com/pop-os/cosmic-term
- https://github.com/pop-os/cosmic-files
- https://github.com/pop-os/cosmic-edit
- https://github.com/pop-os/cosmic-settings
- https://github.com/pop-os/libcosmic
See cosmic-epoch for instructions on building and installing COSMIC.
Gnome is heavy to use, and buggy, lots of people like the design of gnome, but not the perf hit. It will be nice to use apps that both don’t suck, and fit our general aesthetic