Uploaded July 2024 | Updated September 2026, 3 hours ago

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Listen to the latest on System76 computers, manufacturing, Pop!_OS and COSMIC DE. This episode features an interview with Carl, Maria and Jeremy from the COSMIC Development Team. We’ll also talk about new hardware updates, community happenings and even play a fun game at the end!

Five facts about us:
- Desktops and keyboards handcrafted in the US
- Pop!_OS is free and collects zero user data
- Computers and keyboards ship to over 60 countries
- In-house support for the life of your hardware
- Advocate for Right to Repair, Linux, free and open source

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:47 Hardware News- Starling Ampere Servers and Thelio Mira price drop
2:24 COSMIC News, new branding, logo, tagline
3:00 Story behind the COSMIC logo
4:40 Community News
5:30 Software Freedom Day
6:12 Interview Intro
6:35 Interview with COSMIC team begins
6:47 What is COSMIC?
07:45 What drove team to make COSMIC?
10:00 User Friendly experience
15:40 Design System
16:50 Theming
25:30 How did you decide who to choose to build COSMIC?
28:10 RUST eco system
32:25 Iced Toolkit
37:45 Make it easy to develop applets
42:00 UI components on their own
45:00 Nice defaults and ability to customize
50:58 What is everyone excited for?
57:00 On COSMIC for 18 months
1:00:00 What to expect from Alpha
1:03:00 COSMIC Icon Guessing Game
1:05:40 Outro