Carl Richell

My new mobile daily driver! It's a perfectly balanced laptop. Thin, light, powerful CPU and GPU, and battery life that gets me through the day. And that incredible 2K OLED display. system76.com/laptops/adder-…

@victorphos @CachyOS We're tagging the release later today and the @CachyOS team are fast to package. Usually just a couple days.

@carlrichell I forgot to ask I see that the frosted glass is there in git packages in @CachyOS packages but not yet in stable If you had to guess when do you think it will be in the stable versions @CachyOS you can also answer if you have an idea

On Pop!_OS 24.04 * COSMIC Store > Install Updates * Logout/Login * Settings > Desktop > Appearance > Frosted Glass under Style Arriving for other distros once we tag the release next Tuesday. Have a great weekend!

@JohnAarivEd @9to5linux @system76 That's not the default in the screenshot.

@carlrichell @9to5linux @system76 I know that already. I just mean it's too transparent by default, assuming that's the default settings in the screenshot.

First Look at COSMIC Desktop Environment’s Frosted Glass Effect 9to5linux.com/first-look-at-… @system76 @carlrichell #Linux #OpenSource

@JohnAarivEd @9to5linux @system76 That's just how they chose to adjust the effect. Users can choose super glassy, super frosted, or somewhere in-between with a couple simple sliders. It's conservative by default but doesn't lock the user into one choice.

@9to5linux @system76 @carlrichell it looks too transparent tbh. just look at macos it does it just perfect.

@notcalmerecentl We use the Dual Kawase blur technique which uses significantly less resources than something like a Gaussian blur.

@carlrichell My biggest concern is resource usage. I often have four monitors and dozens of applications open at the same time. When I tried enabling blur on GNOME, I immediately understood why my machine was struggling. How did you solve this problem?

@notcalmerecentl I change my layout around from time to time. One of my personal favorites is to disable the dock and move the top panel to the bottom with all the applets I want.

@carlrichell This top bar is brilliant. I only very rarely need the menu bar at the bottom; at this point, it mostly just has a symbolic presence. Everything I need is right where I’m looking.

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Happy Independence Day!

@JohnAarivEd They're likely very similar.

@carlrichell Pop! _os or fedora cosmic that has better battery life

Intel's Panther Lake makes its way to System76 laptops! Battery life is truly incredible. Check out the new model system76.com/laptops/lemur-…

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The COSMIC team is getting together in Poland. If you're in the area, join us in Warsaw August 1st for food, drinks and COSMIC chat. It's an informal get together and everyone is welcome. meetup.com/system76-commu…

@TMIYChao Not at release but we've been working on it.

@carlrichell But no coreboot with new cpu right? My lemp13 just died :/

@rennnehzinha @COSMIC_desktop Oh, USB drive removal in particular. What's the use case for a notifications that a USB drive has been removed? (seems obvious that the user knows they removed a drive and thus unnecessarily noisy)

@carlrichell @COSMIC_desktop When you plug in a USB drive, the Plasma interface usually lets you know when you've removed it, but with Cosmic, unfortunately, whenever I use it, I can never see anything. Do I need to enable something?

Calling open-source champions in Europe! Join fans of Linux and System76’s Pop!_OS and COSMIC DE on the evening of Aug. 1 in Warsaw for a COSMIC Convergence 2026 meetup with System76 founder @carlrichell and his dev team. Check out the meetup details: na2.hubs.ly/H06rJjh0

@rennnehzinha @COSMIC_desktop What do you mean by pop-up notifications? COSMIC has notifications that pop-up so I'm not sure what you mean.

@COSMIC_desktop @carlrichell I'd really like it if you implemented pop-up notifications like the ones in GNOME and Plasma. If you did that, I'd switch over to Cosmic completely.

@joshuaprichards @system76 🤔

@system76 Ever considered making System76 DRAM?

What's featherlight, packs our best battery life ever, and just got a 16" option for the first time? The new Lemur Pro! Weighing just 2.2 lbs (14") and 2.96 lbs (16"), the new Lemur Pro is powered by Intel® Core™ Ultra processors and delivers an incredible 18 hours of battery life. Which size would you choose? Link to the product in the replies 👇 #Linux #ultraportable #system76 #ubuntu

As a Linux OEM, we had concerns about Intel layoffs as well. We haven't seen driver quality decline and our concerns were mitigated with Panther Lake. It's also our responsibility as a Linux OEM to ensure folks don't have to worry about whether their hardware works optimally and reliably.

well good for intel if they are better now, but after so many issues for so long it takes a while to rebuild that trust as it did for AMD. I'm just worried after all their major layoffs, especially on Linux side it will start to affect their diver quality. for example my friend (using NixOS) had some intel gpu and there was always some issue

System76 Launches New Lemur Pro #Linux Laptop with 18-Hour Battery Life. 16-Inch Model 9to5linux.com/system76-launc… @system76 @carlrichell

@Ahjolinna @9to5linux @system76 Sigh no more! Panther Lake performance and battery life is legit. Intel's back. Especially gaming on the new Arc Battlemage graphics... and battery life.

@9to5linux @system76 @carlrichell intel ...oh ...sigh

@xdadevelopers They used to have socketed processors. Super thick though.

Modern laptops are getting less repairable, and my 12-year-old laptop proves it bit.ly/4pakd6F