Archinstall 2.8.3 Arch Linux Installer Adds COSMIC Desktop Option

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Archinstall 2.8.3 Arch Linux Installer Adds COSMIC Desktop Option

Just one week after the Archinstall 2.8.2 update, another release of this command-line driven Arch Linux installer is now available for quick and easy Arch deployments...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Arch-Linux-Archinstall-2.8.3

[Quackdoc]

I dont see myself leaving git for quite a while lol.

[uid313]

It would be great if COSMIC got packaged for Debian and Ubuntu too.

[loganj]

is Cosmic build on top of gnome? or is independent of gnome?

[pWe00Iri3e7Z9lHOX2Qx]

is Cosmic build on top of gnome? or is independent of gnome?

No. This is new, written in rust using iced.

[pWe00Iri3e7Z9lHOX2Qx]

Supposedly there is a Fedora spin coming for F42. It will be fascinating to watch how well that is received.

[usta]

is Cosmic build on top of gnome? or is independent of gnome?

Yes and no System76 stated it will be creating a new desktop environment not based on GNOME. This desktop environment will be written in Rust and developed to be similar to GNOME. Even in description of PopOs they say until the independent COSMIC environment is finished, legacy COSMIC desktop, which is a heavily customized GNOME

[skeevy420]

is Cosmic build on top of gnome? or is independent of gnome?

Independent. Cosmic used to be a very in-depth GNOME plugin, but after a few years of the GNOME devs not accepting their pull requests and continuously doing things that made life harder for System76 devs, the folks at System76 decided to build a desktop environment from the ground up.

Cosmic is basically the result of FAFO. The GNOME and RHEL folks are very set in their ways and don't always play nicely with others. They have a "My way or the highway" mindset. Most projects and organizations end up following their lead.

Most.

Most projects and organizations don't sell hardware with graphical interfaces. Cosmic via System76 does. Unlike RHEL who sells services geared towards system administrators, System76 sells services and hardware geared towards consumers. RHEL needs an interface that's designed to log into other interfaces and be used primarily by system administrators and power users. GNOME does that very well. System76 has a greater need to innovate the desktop and how the system itself is used because they sell laptops and desktops used by regular people. Only time will tell if Cosmic does that well.

[sophisticles]

As I said before, I expect COSMIC to eventually become the default DE for most major distributions, and I would not be surprised to see a fork that features COSMIC redesigned to mimic KDE, perhaps KOSMIC.

BTW, KOSMIC dot com and dot org are already taken.

[Svyatko]

COSMIC Desktop Environment is available for openSUSE:

https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:COSMIC