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

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    1 year 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)
    • Michael Murphy@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      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.

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        1 year 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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          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.