# Cosmic Desktop variant planned? **URL:** \ **Category:** Bazzite\ **Created:** [December 28, 2025, 2:05pm UTC](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/t/cosmic-desktop-variant-planned/11383 "2025-12-28T14:05:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![fracture1203](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7ba0ec/32.png) [@fracture1203](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/u/fracture1203)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2025, 2:05pm UTC](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/t/cosmic-desktop-variant-planned/11383/1 "2025-12-28T14:05:38Z")
Since Fedora already has an atomic Cosmic spin, is it planned to make a Bazzite version with Cosmic DE? Sorry if this has been asked before. The only thing I found was an Aurora maintainer saying it will not be done for Aurora and I believe I saw someone say that it will be done for Bazzite only. Is there an ETA on that by chance? I tried to get Bazzite KDE to work for me, but it was too glitchy (as KDE has been the two other times I tried it, admittedly Plasma 6 is MUCH better). I suppose I can get over the cluttered feel, but not poor performance. For example when downloading on Steam, the whole system freezes up. I tried with and without hardware acceleration. It seems to be a KDE compositor or shell issue. I never experienced this with Gnome or Hyprland before. I’d like to use Bazzite because I like the benefits of Atomic distros (and SElinux+secureboot with Fedora) and Bazzite has most of the stuff I need part of the image which won’t need to be layered, especially Steam and many others which is nice. Gnome is well, Gnome, and I don’t want to use it anymore. Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![monomaniac](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/universal-blue.discourse.group/monomaniac/32/7971_2.png) [@monomaniac](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/u/monomaniac)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2025, 2:15pm UTC](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/t/cosmic-desktop-variant-planned/11383/2 "2025-12-28T14:15:07Z")
> [@Deprecation notice: budgie, cosmic, and sway base images](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/t/deprecation-notice-budgie-cosmic-and-sway-base-images/9019): > > Starting in September 2025 Universal Blue will only be publishing three base images: base-main: Base image with no desktop silverblue-main: Silverblue kinoite-main: Kinoite This includes latest and the GTS variants. sway-atomic, budgie-atomic, cosmic-atomic - if you are using one of these in your base image you can effective use base-main and add a dnf install @blah-desktop for the same effect. References: [Deprecate images not used by our products · Issue #927 · ublue-os/main · GitHub](https://github.com/ublue-os/main/issues/927)[cho…](https://github.com/ublue-os/main/pull/931/files) I think you’re out of luck on that. Probably they don’t have the resources to maintain three different variants. ---
**Author:** ![inffy](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/universal-blue.discourse.group/inffy/32/7996_2.png) [@inffy](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/u/inffy)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2025, 2:22pm UTC](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/t/cosmic-desktop-variant-planned/11383/3 "2025-12-28T14:22:11Z")
There are currently no plans to create a specific image for Cosmic. There are some “3rd party” images based on ublue. One of the, which seems to be pretty well maintained is Origami Linux [https://origami.wf/](https://origami.wf/) ---
**Author:** ![Danathar](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/universal-blue.discourse.group/danathar/32/7758_2.png) [@Danathar](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/u/Danathar)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2025, 5:14pm UTC](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/t/cosmic-desktop-variant-planned/11383/4 "2025-12-28T17:14:23Z")
Remember that “spins” are not official fedora supported. They are community supported using Fedora infrastructure. There are only TWO officially supported desktop environments. Gnome and KDE. ---
**Author:** ![fracture1203](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7ba0ec/32.png) [@fracture1203](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/u/fracture1203)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2025, 12:22am UTC](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/t/cosmic-desktop-variant-planned/11383/5 "2025-12-29T00:22:21Z")
Thanks! Appreciate all the info. Totally understandable as I’m sure it’s a lot of work to maintain another DE. I think I heard it was automated so I wasn’t sure. But I tried Cosmic Atomic with Steam Flatpak and it has it’s own issues. So I wouldn’t recommend Cosmic just yet anyway. I will try Aurora with Steam Flatpak and see how that goes, otherwise I’ll just stay where I’m at for now. ---
**Author:** ![LetsCallHimSteve](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/universal-blue.discourse.group/letscallhimsteve/32/4980_2.png) [@LetsCallHimSteve](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/u/LetsCallHimSteve)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2025, 8:01am UTC](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/t/cosmic-desktop-variant-planned/11383/6 "2025-12-29T08:01:09Z")
You sound like you might have a hardware problem, maybe bad RAM. I had similar freezes and crashes a few years ago, and replacing one of my RAM sticks fixed them. ---
**Author:** ![fracture1203](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7ba0ec/32.png) [@fracture1203](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/u/fracture1203)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2025, 1:22pm UTC](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/t/cosmic-desktop-variant-planned/11383/7 "2025-12-30T13:22:16Z")
Thanks for the suggestion, valid point, but the only time I saw this was when on Bazzite. Aurora with Steam Flatpak is actually working great. I am thinking that my system does not like the kernel mods done to Bazzite. And no issues with KDE either. In fact it’s fantastic after a bunch of customization to make it more keybind and multiple desktop focused. Have it very similar and clean like I had on Hyprland (sans tiling of course). Didn’t know you could remove title bars globally in the theme which is awesome and removes a lot of clutter. Super impressed so far. Looking forward to just living my life and using my PC not having to worry about anything. Even though I can do a lot manually, I don’t get paid for it and work enough hours at my job already 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![LetsCallHimSteve](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/universal-blue.discourse.group/letscallhimsteve/32/4980_2.png) [@LetsCallHimSteve](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/u/LetsCallHimSteve)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2025, 6:16am UTC](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/t/cosmic-desktop-variant-planned/11383/8 "2025-12-31T06:16:49Z")
The same thing happened to me, my system worked fine with some distros and/or DEs, but I had problems with others, coincidentally those that took full advantage of the PC resources like RAM or disks. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/free1/uploads/univeral_blue/original/2X/e/e39f7d1952979cf23b0f8d634e025fb38da50026.png) [@system](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2026, 6:16am UTC](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/t/cosmic-desktop-variant-planned/11383/9 "2026-01-03T06:16:59Z")
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