Michael A. Murphy 
mastodon 4.7.3System76 (
) engineer and Pop!_OS (
) maintainer working on COSMIC: a next generation desktop environment in Rust. Occasionally provides support on https://chat.pop-os.org and https://pop_os.reddit.com. Comments will lean towards #PopOS, #RustLang, #CosmicDesktop, #Linux, and #RedoxOS.
@demerara@social.vivaldi.net This isn't really a COSMIC thing but a Flatpak one, and we were already shipping Flatpak in previous releases so the same applies there as well.
There's a Learn Linux TV tutorial for tiling in COSMIC though.
https://youtu.be/IqqhbWnxYlY?is=aROH_GDI-6JzCQ1J
The official website also has tutorials
COSMIC Desktop Tiling Tutorial (Step-by-Step Guide)
@demerara@social.vivaldi.net Synaptic is an X11 window that requires to be run as root, which is incompatible with the Wayland security model. Ubuntu 24.04 does not modify the desktop entry to work around this in Wayland, but you can run it from a terminal with sudo -E synaptic. This will apply for other X11 applications that run as root as well. sudo -E gparted and sudo -E gufw-pkexec, for example. Ideally these would be updated to not require root though.