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Onward To Cosmic, And Then Back To Gnome!

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It’s been a couple of years since I upgraded from a soon-to-be out of support Windows PC, to a System76 Pop!_OS PC, and it’s been pretty great ever since. I’ve been … aware of System76’s updated “COSMIC” desktop environment for quite some time, but never felt it was necessary to try out the alpha. But, as recently as December of 2025, they’ve finally put out version 1.0. And some of my apps were beginning to … not work correctly, since I was stuck on Ubuntu/Pop 22.04. Apps like Firestorm, which I use to manage my store in Second Life, suddenly lost some of its functions because the developers were using dependencies that I simply could not get due to being on a less-than-up-to-date installation.

So, I figured, well, it’s one of my nights off, let’s upgrade to COSMIC!

And then the problems started.

First, I had to point the DNS on my system at Google, because my machine couldn’t access half of the repos needed for COSMIC. Annoying. Then, once I finally got in and started downloading everything that was missing, I noticed that COSMIC is Wayland, only.

I didn’t think this would be an issue … but it was.

It is.

It’s a huge issue.

Almost nothing works under Wayland.

Steam won’t open, Discord won’t open, Lutris won’t open. HAHA!

All of the numerous fixes I could find all lead to segmentation fault, and segmentation fault, and segmentation fault. Right up to the point that I decided that I had had enough, and that I was correct about all of this. There was no need for there to be a “COSMIC,” and Wayland is not ready at all for wide-spread adoption. At least, that’s what it looks like from my perspective. Maybe Wayland functions fine under other desktop environments. I don’t know.

I don’t know, because I installed the native Gnome DE, and switched over. I’ll give S76 another year to figure out how to make COSMIC work properly.


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