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COSMIC Alpha 1 Released with POP!_OS 24.04 Alpha.

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COSMIC by System76 and POP!_OS 24.04 just reached its alpha stage. You can try it out by downloading the POP!_OS 24.04 ISO from the posted link.

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5 comments

SwitchyWitchyandBitchy

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Fuck yeah! Just closed like 50 tabs so I have room for a VM to try it on my laptop.

hello_hello

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Make sure you have 3D/Hardware acceleration enabled for whatever VM software you're using (QEMU/Virtualbox) as COSMIC does not support software rendering.

SwitchyWitchyandBitchy

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I wish I had read this earlier. It's painfully slow with the default settings in gnome boxes.

fossphi

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I can really recommend virt-manager. gnome-boxes is a little too...dumbed down?

SwitchyWitchyandBitchy

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Yeah I ditched boxes trying to get hardware acceleration to work. Virt-Manager is working well.

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