{"id":450271,"date":"2026-02-05T09:48:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T09:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/450271\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T09:48:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T09:48:10","slug":"system76s-cosmic-desktop-planning-vulkan-renderer-improved-gaming-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/450271\/","title":{"rendered":"System76’s COSMIC Desktop Planning Vulkan Renderer, Improved Gaming Experience"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"DESKTOP\"
\nFollowing December’s release of COSMIC Epoch 1 along with the Pop!_OS 24.04 release<\/a> by System76, today they shared more of their feature plans for the next two major COSMIC desktop updates.<\/p>\n

System76 still has some pretty grand plans for this open-source, Rust-based desktop environment. While since the big inaugural release there have been some point releases to help polish it<\/a>, for COSMIC Epoch 2 and then Epoch 3 are some pretty significant features planned. A Vulkan renderer for the COSMIC Wayland compositor will hopefully make it into the next release plus some exciting performance work and more. In a blog post today System76 shared some of their action items. <\/p>\n

\"COSMIC<\/p>\n

COSMIC Epoch 2 action items include:<\/p>\n

– Performance optimizations such as reactive rendering to significantly reduce CPU usage (60~80%) as well as multi-threaded image decoding and parallel GPU image uploads. <\/p>\n

– Window drop shadows for libcosmic. <\/p>\n

– Applet Settings <\/p>\n

– A Vulkan renderer for the COSMIC compositor. This Vulkan renderer is motivated in part for HDR and night light features. <\/p>\n

– Improvements to enhance the gaming experience. <\/p>\n

– A blur\/frosted glass effect for windows with COSMIC compositor. <\/p>\n

– Wacom tablet support. <\/p>\n

Meanwhile some of the features for COSMIC Epoch 3 include: <\/p>\n

– A COSMIC Greeter for the desktop. <\/p>\n

– Various workspace animations. <\/p>\n

– HDR and Night Light support for the COSMIC compositor. <\/p>\n

– Gamepad\/controller support work. <\/p>\n

– The ability to restore sessions to retain window sizes and locations during the same login. <\/p>\n

– SVG cursor support. <\/p>\n

– Hotloading applets for the COSMIC panel. <\/p>\n

– COSMIC Settings is to add per-app volume controls. <\/p>\n

– For the COSMIC Edit editor to have language server protocol (LSP) support, spell checking, splits, and other features. <\/p>\n

More details on these planned improvements for the next two major releases of the COSMIC desktop via the System76 blog<\/a>. No timeline is provided\/known yet for when they hope to ship COSMIC Epoch 2 and Epoch 3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Following December’s release of COSMIC Epoch 1 along with the Pop!_OS 24.04 release by System76, today they shared…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":450272,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[7278,7277,7275,7274,7281,7279,7276,7280,7273,7284,74,7282,7283],"class_list":{"0":"post-450271","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-desktop-linux","9":"tag-linux-benchmarking","10":"tag-linux-hardware-benchmarks","11":"tag-linux-hardware-reviews","12":"tag-linux-how-to","13":"tag-linux-performance","14":"tag-linux-server-benchmarks","15":"tag-open-source-graphics","16":"tag-phoronix","17":"tag-phoronix-test-suite","18":"tag-technology","19":"tag-ubuntu-benchmarks","20":"tag-ubuntu-hardware"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=450271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/450272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}