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COSMIC DE is a desktop environment developed in the Rust programming language, using the iced cross plattform GUI library for Rust, and Smithay as building blocks for its compositor, cosmic-comp. Cosmic-comp is comparable to smithay's own anvil compositor demonstration, just like the wayland project uses weston as demo compositor.

## Installation

### Epoch

Cosmic's first release is called Epoch, and can be installed via cosmic-epoch-gitAUR. It is compiling all the currently available parts stiched together by System76. The easiest is to start it through a display manager, where it will show up as an additional option, besides e.g. GNOME, KDE, etc.

### Install the parts

Cosmic comprises a compositor, library, and applets, which may be installed as parts. As of 2022-02, only the compositor is available separately as cosmic-comp-gitAUR.

## History

Until COSMIC DE is finished, Pop!Os still uses its legacy Cosmic desktop, which is a heavily customized GNOME. There are some of the packages available, with varying quality, like gnome-cosmic-gitAUR, gnome-cosmic-desktop-widget-gitAUR, popsicleAUR.

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