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What are your thoughts on the upcoming COSMIC DE? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Basically title, with System76 moving from gnome to their new rust built COSMIC environment what are your thoughts?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

According to my experience a bunch of Rust programs should not be too hard to run on other distros. At least NixOS will have the option very quick after it's release, I believe.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wish that it could just be as easy as running a few Cargo commands. Though, I have not taken a look at how the project is made/programmed or anything. I wish it could be as simple as

Install deps
cargo build
cargo install (or similar command)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

We use casey/just as a better makefile alternative. Shared system library dependencies will be listed in the debian/rules file, and most things should compile and install with just && sudo just install.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That’s very nice to hear. So it’ll be easy to get up and running with Cosmic even if I’m on a different distribution?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's already packaged on multiple distributions, albeit in an unofficial capacity. If you are on Pop!_OS, you can install the cosmic-session package today, then enable Wayland in the gdm3 config. We have an apt-manage tool which you can use to add development branches. A popdev branch is created for each branch on GitHub pushed by a team member.