# Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS: COSMIC, System76's Rust desktop, arrives

- **Published on:** 2025-12-11
- **Category:** Releases
- **Original page:** https://linuxgratis.com/en/articles/pop-os-24-04

Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS is now stable: it debuts COSMIC, its new desktop written in Rust, with kernel 6.17, advanced tiling and native applications.

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System76 has released **Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS**, and it ranks among the most significant versions in the distribution's history. The official announcement landed on **December 11, 2025**, and it brings the debut of **COSMIC**, the brand-new desktop environment that the System76 team wrote from scratch in the **Rust** programming language.

Pop!_OS is the Linux distribution built by System76, the US manufacturer that ships its computers with Linux preinstalled. It builds on Ubuntu and targets developers, creators and anyone who wants a productive system with strong hardware support (NVIDIA graphics in particular) and a workflow built around window management. With this release it drops its GNOME extensions and becomes a fully independent desktop of its own.

## Key new features

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- **COSMIC Desktop (Epoch 1):** a modular and composable environment, written entirely in Rust for memory safety and performance.
- **Advanced window tiling:** mouse- or keyboard-driven tiling with per-workspace and per-display configurations. It brings stacks, snapping and sticky windows.
- **Linux kernel 6.17** alongside **Mesa 25.1** graphics drivers and support for the **NVIDIA 580** series.
- **Native COSMIC applications:** file manager, COSMIC Store, a tabbed terminal with split panes, text editor, media player with subtitle support and a screenshot tool.
- **Hybrid graphics** with automatic GPU switching for longer battery life without any manual fiddling, plus **multi-display scaling** with mixed resolutions.
- **"Refresh Install" feature:** reinstall the OS while keeping your files, settings and applications, plus full disk encryption during installation.

System76 has also confirmed a scheduling change. From **Pop!_OS 26.04 LTS** onward, releases will line up with the Ubuntu LTS cycle, roughly two weeks behind. This version also adds **ARM** architecture support.

To see the full distribution profile, its history and where to download it, head to [Pop!_OS on LinuxGratis](/en/pop-os).

## Source

- [Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS Released: A Letter From Our Founder — System76 Blog](https://blog.system76.com/post/pop-os-letter-from-our-founder/)