Carl Richell

System76 team exploring Thelio CAD models in VR.

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

Beautiful fall.

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.

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/hojjatabdoll...

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. 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. www.phoronix.com/review/intel...

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.

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!"

COSMIC Warsaw Summit is a wrap so we're back to regularly scheduled releases. Version 1.6 notable features include per-app volume and output control, borders around COSMIC Terminal splits, and ground work for Remote Desktop and Input Capture (coming soon!). Details at github.com/pop-os/cosmi...

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.

Good food, good beer, and great conversation in Warsaw. Thanks to everyone that made it our first COSMIC Convergence meetup.

"In short, this is the best Linux workstation I've ever seen." www.zdnet.com/article/syst...

COSMIC has been out for seven months and a lot has happened in that short time. The blog was written as a six month progress report but Frosted Glass took a tad bit longer to refine and I really wanted it in there 😅 system76.com/blog/post/co...

The new System76 Adder Pro is stunning. Great keyboard, large touchpad, premium build all while being lightweight with nice screen real estate. COSMIC elevates the entire experience.

On Pop!_OS 24.04 * COSMIC Store > Install Updates * Logout/Login * Settings > Desktop > Appearance > Frosted Glass under Style Arriving for other distros once we tag the release next Tuesday. Have a great weekend!

Happy Independence Day!

Our collagen now comes with 90% less plastic.

The COSMIC team is getting together in Poland. If you're in the area, join us in Warsaw August 1st for food, drinks and COSMIC chat. It's an informal get together and everyone is welcome. www.meetup.com/system76-com...

Intel's Panther Lake CPUs are headed to System76 laptops. First is the Lemur Pro, released today. The Adder Pro w/ nvidia 5060/5070 arrives in a couple weeks. Battery life is impressive as are Battlemage graphics on the U7 processor. Check it out here: system76.com/laptops/lemu...

Check out the new COSMIC System Monitor app. system76.com/blog/post/co...

Happy Father's Day to the dads out there. We went to the late Disclosure Day showing last night. It's a great movie with enough intrigue and action to make the 2.5 hrs fly by. Today's hiking, video games and hanging with friends. What are y'all up to for Father's Day?

COSMIC 1.0.15 has been released. This update significantly levels up COSMIC gaming. Steam Big Picture to a game and back is smooth. Games launch fullscreen as intended. Wayland pointer constraints protocol fixes the FPS games experience. Available in Pop!_OS now and your favorite distro soon.

COSMIC Frosted Glass is getting closer. The effect is subtle by default but can get very glassy if that's your thing. Or turn the effect off all together. Toggles and sliders in Settings fine tune the look to the style you want.

COSMIC 1.0.14 has been released. Key features and improvements include the ability to reorder folders in the Applications Library, key bind support for non-latin layouts, X11 games opening fullscreen correctly, and a fix for nvidia multi-display setups. Details here: github.com/pop-os/cosmi...

California amended their AB-1856 Age Attestation law to exclude open source software using the Colorado exemption example. Thank you to the folks in California advocating for open source. leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTe...

If you use "Show desktop", when do you use it (for what purpose). What do you do after showing the desktop? Thinking about the feature for COSMIC.

Ubuntu 26.04 LTS is getting closer to shipping pre-loaded on @system76.bsky.social hardware. DDOS attacks on Ubuntu infra slowed things down. We built new infrastructure to remove our Launchpad dependency and speed up releases moving forward.

PC Gamer: "My time with Linux has been eye-opening, genuinely. Pop! OS is such a beautiful place to be. There was never a day when I got back to the office that I wasn't looking forward to booting up my PC and getting to do some work in the Cosmic environment." www.pcgamer.com/software/lin...

COSMIC updates this week: linuxiac.com/cosmic-deskt... Large features are also in the works.

"The new System76 Thelio Major delivers immense performance capabilities while operating more energy efficient and with noticeably better thermals... The improved thermals also led to the Thelio Major being quieter than its predecessors." www.phoronix.com/review/syste...

Beautiful day in Colorado.

Native COSMIC printer setup and dialog were accepted for GSOC! Big thanks to Till Kamppeter for leading the initiative. summerofcode.withgoogle.com/programs/202... summerofcode.withgoogle.com/programs/202...

Congrats to the Ubuntu team on another great release!

COSMIC 1.0.11 has been tagged. There's now a toggle for workspace wrapping, file names are selected up to the extension when renaming plus many more improvements. See the change summary at: github.com/pop-os/cosmi... Released on Pop and coming to your distro soon.

I received the amended Colorado Age Attestation bill. * Open source OS's and apps are excluded * Code repos are excluded (github/gitlab) * Containers are excluded (docker/podman) Now to work on getting the bill passed with these amendments.

Join me on a tour of the @system76.bsky.social Denver factory where people transform raw materials into premium desktops and keyboards. youtu.be/9366taDty-k?... Thanks Pavel Dmitriev for visiting and recording the tour.

The latest COSMIC frosted glass WIP.

COSMIC 1.0.9 has been released. It includes performance improvements, input method support, text ellipsizing, wifi network search in settings, screenshots saved in a separate folder, and more polish and quality of life improvements. github.com/pop-os/cosmi...

One of the coolest things about living in Breckenridge is the mining town history. You can casually hike up to a historic mine and browse through an old blacksmith shop.