Last Updated on: 26th December 2025, 05:27 pm
There is a new desktop available for Sparkers: COSMIC
What is COSMIC?
COSMIC is a desktop environment offering performance, efficiency, and personalization to empower a wide variety of use cases.
COSMIC desktop is available via Sparky ‘dev’ repositories so the repo has to be enabled to install COSMIC desktop on the top of Sparky 8 stable or testing (9).
It uses the Wayland session as default. The Sparky meta package installs ‘xwayland’ package as default, but some application can not work or launch. That’s why I put the packages to the development repositories so far.
Make sure the COSMIC desktop is available to test but I do not recommend to install it on a production machine yet.
Installation Sparky 8 & testing (9) amd64 only:
sudo apt update
sudo apt install sparky-desktop-cosmic
Then reboot to take effects.
Then choose COSMIC from your login/session manager to log in.
Web: github.com/pop-os/cosmic-epoch
License: GNU GPL
I really look forward to using Cosmic in the future, it looks like a promising new user friendly DE. I tested Cosmic with POP when I was testing so many distros as I finally migrated to Linux from Mac in 2025. For now though it’s not quite there yet for my needs, though I do continue to return to look at its progress with anticipation every so often.