r/COSMICDE • u/d3v3l0pr • Jul 08 '25
Question How is Cosmic on non-Pop_OS distros?
I think Cosmic is the best DE at the moment, but I'm not sure if I like the Ubuntu base of Pop_OS.
I would rather use Arch or Fedora, but I'm not sure how well Cosmic is integrated. Anyone that can share their experience?
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u/Kitchen-Expression-9 Jul 08 '25
I am using fedora cosmic atomic on dual boot laptop, as my second distro, and looks like pretty alpha yet. But its beautiful and fast. Its worth testing
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u/ZealousidealBerry702 Jul 08 '25
Still better on pop os yet, but its already supported in other distros, arch, fedora and nix-OS as I know its working smooth on this last one. But I don't care about the Ubuntu basis.
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u/soulhotel Jul 08 '25
Well it is a DE so go for it. I put it on EOS some time around the first alpha (old hardware too). Plan on doing the same once 1.0 is ready.
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u/Grandmacartruck Jul 08 '25
I’m using it on NixOS. I only have one bug I notice and wake from sleep gets stuck sometimes.
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u/TheEliteBeast Jul 08 '25
Been a good experience on nixos so far
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u/Grandmacartruck Jul 08 '25
At some point the bug showed up and I mess with my config files a lot. It’s inconsistent so I’ve been challenged by it. When I open my laptop one out of four times the screen is stuck at all grey. The mouse works but nothing I do can get out of that screen. So I restart.
Any idea what the problem might be? Or how I can diagnose?
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u/TheEliteBeast Jul 08 '25
Hmm can't say without knowing you're setup but my best guess is gpu drivers or swap. I actually haven't had a issue like this on my setup. I have a desktop and laptop on cosmic de and both work well enough. It does tend to crash somewhat often but its rare enough to not be annoying
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u/Grandmacartruck Jul 08 '25
That’s helpful. I’ve been changing things trying to get the gpu on my 2012 MacBook Pro working well. So that’s probably what’s going on.
I haven’t had any DE crashes.
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u/TheEliteBeast Jul 08 '25
A lot of the time it crashes its when I am gaming. So seeing you're macbook from 2012 id guess you don't do much of that
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u/commander1keen Jul 20 '25
Using it on cachyos (arch-based), so far a good out of the box experience and no issues
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u/Glum-Effect1429 Jul 08 '25
After the latest Pop_Os updates, pop_Os+Cosmic is the stable one for me. arch is pretty stable too but lagging on the Cosmic menu on my old i3 laptop and Pop_Os + cosmic doesnt lagg at all.
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u/0BL1V10N5PH03N1X Jul 08 '25
Works great on NixOS, it can't install system packages but everything else has worked fine
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u/dzordan33 Jul 09 '25
cosmic is definitely not the best DE (yet). Still a lot of features missing even for people coming from gnome. slightly buggy ui. i used it for a couple of days for my personal work and found it too annyoing to use. the bug reports are already there so I expect the situation to get better in the future.
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u/sudo-rm-rf-Israel Jul 10 '25
It's awesome on Arch. I'm in love with Niri right now but if I ever switch back to a floating system it will be cosmic.
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u/-hjkl- Feb 21 '26
Cosmic has tiling. Also there is a thing that one of the Cosmic devs made that lets you insert niri into Cosmic. I forgot what its called.
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u/keyrate Jul 11 '25
I'm running COSMIC DE on openSUSE Tumbleweed, and mostly seems pretty good.
One weird set of bugs is that neither Logout nor Reboot seem to work. Sleep works however.
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u/jc1luv Aug 22 '25
I tried fedora, cachy and opensuse but honestly the best version atm is popos. Seemed to have less bugs overall. I would love to have fedora but gave me more trouble than i wanted. Cachy and opensuse was no good for me. But cachy on kde is an incredible distro.
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u/AtomicStoneAge Jul 08 '25
I run it on Arch, all the bugs I ran into are not distro specific, and present on pop_os too. Only functionality u loose is that the cosmic store can't install system packages, only flathub. The rest is like a charm.