System76 has launched the alpha 1 version of Pop!_OS 24.04, featuring a new Rust-based desktop environment called COSMIC, though it's still somewhat incomplete.
As an Ubuntu remix, Pop!_OS 24.04 doesn’t impose radical changes; it introduces COSMIC while maintaining stability and removing Snap in favor of Flatpak.
Despite some issues with stability and app crashes, the new COSMIC environment has received praise and may polarize users due to its unfinished state.
Transitioning to systemd-boot instead of GRUB marks a notable change for Pop!_OS, aligning it with ongoing developments in Linux system management.
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