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Published: March 12, 2026
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Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS upgrade is finally available for 22.04 users — and this is not your average Linux update. System76 just replaced the entire GNOME desktop with their brand new COSMIC desktop environment, built from scratch in Rust, Wayland-native, and unlike anything you've used before.
In this video, I break down everything you need to know before clicking that upgrade button — why System76 waited 3 full months after the December 2025 release to open the upgrade path, what you gain with COSMIC, what you lose from GNOME, and who should absolutely wait before upgrading.
This is a one-way migration — GNOME is gone, X11 is gone, your extensions and themes are wiped. What you get in return is COSMIC, System76's brand new desktop built from scratch in Rust, entirely for Wayland. I've been running it daily since December and it's impressive. But I also bricked my NVIDIA 1050Ti. So there are real things you need to know before hitting that button.
🔑 What's covered:
- Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS upgrade path explained
- COSMIC desktop environment vs GNOME — what changed?
- Wayland-only: X11 is gone in Pop!_OS 24.04
- Native tiling in COSMIC compositor (no more Pop Shell extension)
- COSMIC Files, COSMIC Terminal, COSMIC Store, COSMIC Text Editor
- NVIDIA Pascal/Maxwell (GTX 9/10 series) compatibility issue
- CJK Input Method Editor (IME) missing in COSMIC Epoch 1
- Wacom tablet and touchscreen regression on Wayland
- The "Ghost Bug" focus-stealing crash
- Should you upgrade from Pop!_OS 22.04 to 24.04 now?
- System76's 90-day real-world QA strategy explained
- Pop!_OS 22.04 LTS support until 2027
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