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Carl Richell @carlrichell.bsky.social · 15h

It was nice to see friends, colleagues and new tech at #UbuntuSummit. All the talks were great. I particularly enjoyed @jenson.org UX design talk.

Carl Richell @carlrichell.bsky.social · 16d

COSMIC Store now supports app addons.

Screenshot of COSMIC Store on the Steam application page and addons section visible.

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Carl Richell @carlrichell.bsky.social · 17d

I love this laptop. Had the opportunity to work on it for a few weeks and it's a pleasure to use. Wonderful screen. Wonderful keyboard. AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 & NVIDIA RTX 5070 make a perfect combination. I like my 14" Darter but I can feel the tug from this one.

System76 @system76.bsky.social · 18d

The Oryx Pro will be the first laptop preloaded with the Pop!_OS beta. Also equipped:
-New 2K display (16:10, 240Hz)
-NVIDIA RTX 5070 graphics
-Our fastest mobile CPU offering
-Silver color, aluminum build

Front and back quarter-turned photos of the new, thin Oryx Pro laptop with Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS beta, COSMIC desktop beta, and silver-colored aluminum exterior.

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Carl Richell @carlrichell.bsky.social · 17d

xdg-surface-shape-v1 has been submitted to wayland-protocols. The protocol provides a method for clients to communicate their corner radii to the server/compositor and thus enable clean outlines around windows made with additional toolkits. gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayl...

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Carl Richell @carlrichell.bsky.social · 19d

COSMIC apps border outline now matches the corner radius.

The work is based on conversations to establish a corner radius wayland protocol. We'll submit our draft protocol soon. If accepted and adopted, compositors will be able to render clean borders around more apps in the Linux ecosystem.

COSMIC desktop with two windows and an outline around the focused window.

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Carl Richell @carlrichell.bsky.social · 20d

COSMIC 🔥

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Carl Richell @carlrichell.bsky.social · 24d

Interesting fact: AMD+NVIDIA hybrid laptops require Wayland. This is because the latest AMD Radeon integrated GPUs are not VGA compatible and hybrid won't work in that configuration on X11 (everything runs on the dGPU).

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Carl Richell @carlrichell.bsky.social · 27d

A community-built COSMIC Calendar app is in the works.

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Carl Richell @carlrichell.bsky.social · 28d

Making COSMIC in Rust required building the fundamental capability to create a desktop environment. This included text rendering and a complete toolkit of high-level components with deep platform integration. That foundation now makes it easy to build apps, applets, and components for COSMIC.

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Carl Richell @carlrichell.bsky.social · 29d

I love Borderland 4. I'm playing co-op with my son and it's a blast.

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Carl Richell @carlrichell.bsky.social · Sep 26

Here are useful keyboard shortcuts for the new COSMIC beta: support.system76.com/articles/pop...

Pop!_OS New COSMIC Keyboard Shortcuts

Learn how master using COSMIC with your keyboard.

support.system76.com

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Carl Richell @carlrichell.bsky.social · Sep 26

Check out this awesome COSMIC theme github.com/SethStormR/D...

COSMIC screenshot with a COSMIC robot wallpaper, custom icons and matching color scheme.

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Carl Richell @carlrichell.bsky.social · Sep 26

For all the night owls out there, COSMIC and Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS Beta has been released. Go forth and discover 🚀

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Carl Richell @carlrichell.bsky.social · Sep 19

We're setting up Weblate for COSMIC translations. Coverage is already surprisingly strong given that they're all manual PRs.

* Arabic 72%
* Bulgarian 92%
* Chinese 98%
* Hindi 75%

And my personal favorite, Occidental with 45%.

Thanks for hosting COSMIC @weblate.org!

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Carl Richell @carlrichell.bsky.social · Sep 16

Arriving soon

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Carl Richell @carlrichell.bsky.social · Sep 16

How about your COSMIC theme automatically matching your cycling wallpaper and your Launch keyboard LEDs syncing at the same time?

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Carl Richell @carlrichell.bsky.social · Sep 9

*DisplayLink* Docks.

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Carl Richell @carlrichell.bsky.social · Sep 9

cosmic-comp now supports software rendering which improves the experience in virtual machines and notably adds support for DisplayPort docks!

Laptop with two displays attached via a DisplayPort dock.

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Carl Richell @carlrichell.bsky.social · Sep 5

COSMIC and Pop 24.04 Beta will be released September 25th.

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Carl Richell @carlrichell.bsky.social · Sep 5

User testing is great for sanity checking assumptions, learning where to improve, and avoiding user frustration. We conducted a small round this week. It revealed a couple areas to polish but overall the users took to COSMIC easily. We're looking good.

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Carl Richell @carlrichell.bsky.social · Aug 29

COSMIC Store now supports managing Flatpak repos including adding custom sources. This was necessary to add COSMIC applets in the Store. Many distros prefer not to include additional sources but are cool with features that allow users to add them themselves.

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Carl Richell @carlrichell.bsky.social · Aug 28

Whipped up an Alien Earth COSMIC theme. cosmic-themes.org/182/

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Carl Richell @carlrichell.bsky.social · Aug 27

COSMIC supports VIM shortcuts for window actions and desktop features. Every action can be configured with multiple shortcuts. Out of the box, HJKL or arrow keys can be used to change window focus, move windows, and switch workspaces.

Shortcuts can be customized in Settings.

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Carl Richell @carlrichell.bsky.social · Aug 25

Transform your COSMIC desktop look and layout in ~one minute. No grabbing hex colors or dotfiles to mess with (all settings are stored in plaintext files if you prefer that).

I like the music on this one but what do ya'll think?

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Carl Richell @carlrichell.bsky.social · Aug 25

Happy birthday, Linux! @system76.bsky.social wouldn't be here without you ❤️

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