COSMIC Epoch 1.5 Brings More Fixes & Improvements To System76's Desktop
COSMIC Epoch 1.5 Brings More Fixes & Improvements To System76's Desktop Written by Michael Larabel in Desktop on 29 July 2026 at 08:21 PM EDT. 1 Comment The System76 and Pop!_OS developers continue quickly iterating on their Rust-based COSMIC desktop environment. Just a week since their COSMIC Epoch 1.4 with COSMIC Monitor improvements and fixes, COSMIC Epoch 1.5 is now available.
- ▪COSMIC Epoch 1.5 Brings More Fixes & Improvements To System76's Desktop Written by Michael Larabel in Desktop on 29 July 2026 at 08:21 PM EDT.
- ▪1 Comment The System76 and Pop!_OS developers continue quickly iterating on their Rust-based COSMIC desktop environment.
- ▪Just a week since their COSMIC Epoch 1.4 with COSMIC Monitor improvements and fixes, COSMIC Epoch 1.5 is now available.
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COSMIC Epoch 1.5 Brings More Fixes & Improvements To System76's Desktop Written by Michael Larabel in Desktop on 29 July 2026 at 08:21 PM EDT. 1 Comment The System76 and Pop!_OS developers continue quickly iterating on their Rust-based COSMIC desktop environment. Just a week since their COSMIC Epoch 1.4 with COSMIC Monitor improvements and fixes, COSMIC Epoch 1.5 is now available. COSMIC 1.5 now makes use of EXIF orientation data for the COSMIC background handling, the COSMIC Compositor fixes an issue with Chromium-based apps breaking with below 1.0 fractional scaling, better handling by the compositor during GPU resets, and the COSMIC Greeter can now use the cosmic-keymap-unstable-v1 Wayland protocol.
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