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

  • Spore@lemmy.ml
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    2 years ago

    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.

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      2 years ago

      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)
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          2 years ago

          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?

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            2 years 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. Which can be useful to quickly add a branch to validate a fix by a developer.