Fair comment.
That said, it just installs in vanilla Arch at this point, which means it would work on EndeavourOS and probably CachyOS as well.
You can of course switch to another DE at any time.
So, you are really not exposing yourself to any risk. If it gets broken or abandoned, just stop using it.
Not that this means you should bother with it. But it is clearly a low risk option to try.
I think you mean HashiCorp, an IBM company
What happens when you say that you do not use social media?
When anybody, anywhere in the world visits the US, the IQ goes up in both countries.
I think it is a smart play.
They are getting lots of press in the places where the people that care go.
On their website, they focus on the benefits of their platform for customers. From that perspective, the new COSMIC is just a refinement on what they were shipping before.
And this is just the beginning. COSMIC itself is still fairly basic. And the “new” Pop!OS is based on an LTS base that is already 2 years old. None of that is a problem but it is not a hand they want to overplay.
They may actually make a bigger deal about the benefits when 26.04 ships. Things will be a bit more “industry leading” by then.
Ya, it seems odd to be releasing a 24.04 in 25.12 for sure. That said, 24.04 is still the current LTS and so it is the version we would be on now if they had released earlier (even a year ago).
They plan on releasing a 26.04 LTS as well. So, Pop!OS is not lagging. It just feels strange now.
As I said in another comment, critical parts of Pop!OS 24.04 are also quite up to date including the kernel, Mesa, NVIDIA drivers, and of course COSMIC itself.
Moving forward, I expect the versions of COSMIC in 24.04 and 26.04 to be the same. If I was them, I would even consider syncing Mesa between the two. It will make support and testing so much easier and they are already shipping a newer Mesa in 24.04 anyway.
Fair enough.
But before you scare anybody off, it is worth pointing out that Pop!OS 24.04 is quite up-to-date in those areas.
Those are what is going to drive your GPU and Wayland experience and they are about the same as you get in Kubuntu 25.10
A lot of the 24.04 packages will be older for sure but it is not fair to compare COSMIC in Pop!OS to the old KDE version you would have been using on Ubuntu 24.04 (Kubuntu).
And I expect Pop!OS 24.04 LTS to see steady COSMIC updates on the road to 26.04. It would kind of shock me if they do not harmonize the desktops between those two releases.
I find it pretty solid if a bit bare bones. With the basics in place, it should improve fairly quickly.
They are planning a 26.04 LTS release. We will see what it looks like by then.
When a Canadian goes to the US, the collective IQ of both countries goes up.
The next chance to do something will be in November.
If anything less comes out of that than a Dem House and Senate that immediately moves to impeach both the President and at least one SCOTUS judge, the entire country is a permanent write-off for me.
If you do not mind me asking…
If you want the CPC to “sink further into irrelevance”, what do you expect from another election?
CPC in charge - it sounds like you do not want that
Liberals in charge -“nobody voted for this”? Sound like you do not want that either.
So, am I to understand that you think an election would put the NDP in charge? That seems very unlikely.
What outcome are we hoping a new election will deliver?