Exactly. The setting app has a way to go yet. As does Files, which is VERY bare bones at the moment. Still, I’m enjoying testing out the work they’ve done to this point. I may install it on my laptop to get a better idea of thing. And I suspect submitting bugs and true testing would make more sense on bare metal instead of a VM.
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Yep, I really do like where they seem to be going with it though (my summary). Yes, it’s definitely a work-in-progress.
This is an interesting statement for me, as someone who hates Gnome because it mostly just makes me feel like I’m using one of Apple’s ultra-locked-down basically-fisher-price baby’s-first-computer level devices.
Pop is a distro I briefly used a year or two ago when I first started hopping around looking for alternatives, and I just couldn’t get past how much of a Sisyphean task it felt like under Gnome to make the system look and feel and behave the way I wanted it to rather than the way that they wanted it to.
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I’m the same way regarding Gnome, I just don’t want to use it the way the developers intend (thus it’s not for me), I feel like Cosmic is much improved from the flexibility standpoint.
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Not sure this even qualifies as an alpha release. Simple things like systemd-timesyncd just flat-out don’t work. I reinstalled the packages, after verifying the package list from the repo, and none of the files were actually installed.
If system76 is messing with core systemd packages, then I’m out.
It doesn’t appear that they are. The systemd-timesyncd package looks like it is coming from Ubuntu.
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Looks that way to me as well. But something isn’t right when files are in a package, but none of them are being installed. I’m going to wait for the first beta or rc release.
UPDATE: looks like System76 switched to chronyd back in 2022, not sure why the systemd-timesyncd dummy package was installed.
Did anybody get Cosmic set up on Arch/Endeavour?
I just installed with success (took almost 3 hours) but can’t get cosmic-greeter set up properly with greetd, nor start cosmic without a display-manager.
Should I just install GDM? really don’t like to fall back to another display-manager and greeter.
Decided to give Cosmic a shot as well.
I couldn’t get it to work on a VM, so decided to use a Ventoy stick and run it live I guess I need a third laptop lol.
So far so good. It’s quite usable and customisable enough for a first alpha. Can’t really tell if it’s going to be good for a first stable release, so maybe I’ll consider switching to the second one that will launch with the next one or two editions of Pop.
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But I have to ask.
This is a Plasma install with SDDM and Cosmic on top Right?
Or did you set it up with only Cosmic and greetd and cosmic-greeter?
I only tried for a couple of hours and had to drop it for a Win11 Dualboot last week, but i could not get the pure Cosmic-DE setup running.
Assuming that’s pure Cosmic, how usable is it?
i used the user_pkglist option on EndeavourOS installer installing Cosmic alone not on top of other Desktop… but not using greetd and taken GDM as DM the packages list is this:
cosmic-app-library
cosmic-applets
cosmic-bg
cosmic-comp
cosmic-files
cosmic-greeter
cosmic-launcher
cosmic-notifications
cosmic-osd
cosmic-panel
cosmic-randr
cosmic-screenshot
cosmic-session
cosmic-settings
cosmic-settings-daemon
cosmic-store
cosmic-terminal
cosmic-text-editor
cosmic-wallpapers
cosmic-workspaces
xdg-desktop-portal-cosmic
cosmic-applets
gdm
Adding to /home/liveuser/user_pkglist.txt on ISO livesession and installing no-desktop (online):
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works pretty stable and complete.. only needs the right mindset or workflow to fit in .. it is not working for my brain.. tiling is a nice thing but its all way to wobbely for me.. i like my Desktop static.. basically
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@joekamprad
far out
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I know this is 10 days old, but yeah I did built cosmic on an endeavour install but used Ly as a DM in order to get into it.
Yeah, it is looking pretty good and as you say it is pretty stable.
I am only missing the possibility to define keyboard shortcuts.
I was wrong. The possibility to deal with keyboard shortcuts is now available.
Development is coming on fairly swiftly with new features weekly (or less). Only problem is (and I understand it) knowing what new features have been added, due to a lack of easily accessible changelogs.
Yes, you are right.