Re:Pop_OS 24.04 LTS with COSMIC desktop environment
by jack_tripper on Thursday December 11, 2025 @06:14PM
(#46238685)
Same though from me. Like WTF, we're about 4,5 months away from 26.04 LTS and they're just launching 24.04 NOW?!
How is this supposed to convince people who are already happy with the KDE or Gnome or other variants of Ubuntu and which ship without such monumental delays, thay they should switch to Popos variant of Ubuntu?
Such a long delay isn't reassuring at all.
Re:Pop_OS 24.04 LTS with COSMIC desktop environment
by panick21_ on Friday December 12, 2025 @10:04AM
(#46244773)
They were pretty aggressive about pushing kernel version on 22.04, it really doesn't matter what its based on. I think they should just not use this version numbering, its more confusing then anything else.
Re:Pop_OS 24.04 LTS with COSMIC desktop environment
by mmstick76 on Friday December 12, 2025 @04:20PM
(#46249114)
It wasn't that long of a delay. Just a couple months. Also, keep in mind that this was the first release of COSMIC. Even if it had hypothetically taken an extra six months, that does not set the basis for a release cadence. There will be regular releases from this point.
Re:Pop_OS 24.04 LTS with COSMIC desktop environment
by tracker1 on Thursday December 11, 2025 @06:19PM
(#46238735)
For what it's worth.. it's based on Ubuntu 24.04, which is where their version starts... they're much more up to date on the kernel, a lot of the packages are newer than upstream as well. It's a more current LTS than what Ubuntu offers, but they keep the version number.
Also, they didn't do a release while COSMIC desktop was under development, and the release cycle was alpha/beta on a full baseline to match the COSMIC development... unless you think you can develop a full DE in Rust faster than that.
Note that if you're that far behind on a project, the rational choice is to significantly cut its scope, and push the rest to the following releases.