System76 is Building its Own Desktop Environment

System76 has revealed it is working a new desktop environment that is not based on GNOME Shell. The US-based company already maintains its own Ubuntu-based Linux distro called Pop!_OS. Presently, that distro ships with a modified version of the GNOME desktop called ‘COSMIC’ (all caps, not me shouting). Word of the project comes by way of System76’s Michael Murphy, who shares some of the rationale and motivation behind the new DE in series of comments posted on Reddit. And all told: they make for a pretty exciting read. A new Rust-based desktop Early versions of Pop!_OS were modest reskins of […]

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