Me working on our first Darter laptop model twenty years ago.

COSMIC 1.10 has been released * Drawing tablets can now be mapped to displays in Settings * COSMIC Store has a new gallery mode to browser through screenshots * COSMIC Launcher uses GPU rendering for faster performance * COSMIC System Monitor allows searching apps and processes separately * And many more fixes and improvements throughout github.com/pop-os/cosmic-epo…

Beautiful fall.

This is exciting.

COSMIC now has an on-screen keyboard. It can be activated from the login screen or with an applet you can add to your panel. Settings are under Accessibility > On-screen keyboard. It works great on touchscreen devices and game controllers. We're also working on improving the touchscreen experience throughout COSMIC.

A new COSMIC App! COSMIC Viewer was released today. Browse your library, crop, and annotate your images. Get it in COSMIC Store. Available in Pop!_OS and coming to your favorite distro soon.

Riot Fest was amazing. Thanks for the great time Chicago.

Morning rain clouds up my desktop. COSMIC live shader wallpaper from Glowberry github.com/hojjatabdollahi/g…

The Cosmic EXT Connect community applet is getting a fresh design soon. It's looking awesome! It uses KDE Connect for the backend and integrates with your phone via the KDE Connect app.

In the proprietary world there are disagreements just like in the open source world. They're usually behind closed doors instead of in the open. The important difference is that open source gives people agency to act on disagreements. Fork or build your own thing, either way people retain their agency on both sides of the disagreement.

COSMIC's Frosted Glass feature makes a simple wallpaper change feel like a fresh new desktop.

Almost half the price and far higher performance on System76 Thelio Major vs HP Z4 Gi workstation. Sorry HP, we love you guys but the System76 Thelio Major is the easy pick. phoronix.com/review/intel-xe…

At system76 we had a different vision for the Linux desktop - in particular at the DE level - how to design it, how to develop it. So we built it. That's it. No insults or drama. The year of the Linux desktop is coming. And it will be thanks to the efforts of the entire Linux desktop community.

Electrophoretic coating (e-coat) is a cool process. The bath is charge 100-300 volts. The aluminum is a cathode causing the coating to deposit on the surface. As the coating becomes electrically insulating the deposit process natural slows. I was looking into it as an alternative to anodization that's rather nasty for the environment but then became intrigued by sol-gel that seems to have the properties we're going for with much easier factory processes.

Remote desktop and input capture are in COSMIC! I'm using RustDesk in the video.

Always deep care and professionalism from the system76 support team. "Purchased a Thelio Mega - a power surge damaged our power supply and customer service took the machine in immediately and turned out a repair free of charge all in the same visit! Shoutout to Thomas Zimmerman and team for the fast, easy repair! Overall the machine has been a real asset to our team and we will continue to work with System76 for future computing needs!"

COSMIC Warsaw Summit is a wrap so we're back to regularly scheduled releases. Version 1.6 will arrive in your favorite distro soon. Notable features include per-app volume and output control, borders around splits in COSMIC Terminal, copy and paste in the COSMIC Files search bar, and ground work for Remote Desktop and Input Capture (coming soon!). Details at github.com/pop-os/cosmic-epo…

My mountain paradise. A cool 55 with a slight breeze. I like to visit the beach but this is home.

COSMIC on a pixel 6 at the Warsaw meetup.