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.

See cosmic-epoch for instructions on building and installing COSMIC.

  • Michael Murphy (S76)OPM
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    11 months ago
    Me: Can we have COSMIC?
    Mom: We have COSMIC at home.
    COSMIC at home: Attempting to call back into JSAPI during the sweeping phase of GC. Stack trace for context
    

    Joking aside, COSMIC is nothing like GNOME. Not visually, not feature-wise, nor is it using the same software stack. It is as close to GNOME as KDE is to GNOME. Developed from the ground up in Rust.