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A bit of my experience in upgrading to #pop_os 24.04 with COSMIC and Wayland (from 22.04 pop_os/Gnome...) - just FYI You won't get java, so when stuff like Calibre plugins don't run, you will have to install it. Not obvious at first. OTOH, most of my old Gnome and KDE apps and settings programs were preserved, so be careful of them. The apps work but who knows what the sys settings stuff would do to COSMIC. Screen brightness has no built-in controls. There are a couple of apps in the store, but I couldn't get them to work. If your monitor is too bright or too blue, see if it has its own control buttons or setting menu. Zoom is available in the COSMIC Store but as a Flatpak. It will not find your old settings, backgrounds, and so on...and it will NOT save any new ones. So don't install this, use the downloaded deb package...all your old stuff should still be there (mine was). The dock is weird. You can pin your most-used apps, but every open window adds an icon and soon it is horribly cluttered. If you are a big dock user beware. Synaptic will not run as root!! WTF? On the other hand, almost everything just works, even apps that normally barf on Wayland. It is fast, pretty, slick, and seems stable. Settings are many and pretty intuitive, but still immature. I like it, I'm keeping it. #Linux #Wayland