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Neat, any word on getting this working on Arch. I use Majaro now and KDE is okay, but I'd like to try something new.
by 999900000999 2y ago
Neat, any word on getting this working on Arch. I use Majaro now and KDE is okay, but I'd like to try something new.
- marcus0x62 2y agohttps://wiki.archlinux.org/title/COSMIC https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/COSMIC
- BoredPositron 2y agoWhy even bother to comment if you don’t even click on the link. There is a whole section that answers your question…
- elaus 2y agoThere are links on how to install this on various distros right on the landing page (section "Try it out on your favorite distro!"). E.g. for Arch this leads to https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/COSMIC https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/COSMIC
- executesorder66 2y agoThere's literally a link right on TFA to the Arch Wiki on how to do exactly that. https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/COSMIC https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/COSMIC
- pmarreck 2y agoNixOS is the first Linux distro that I'd dare to swap out a new DE with. I've broken past installs (Arch, for sure) by trying to do this on other distros. Obviously, make a full backup (unless you're on NixOS, in which case, everything just gets rebuilt deterministically from a definition file in either direction, and all previous instances are saved, permitting trivial rollbacks)
- 999900000999 2y agoFortunes favors the bold! This isn't a work PC, I tried Cosmic and just got a black screen and switched back to KDE
- sureglymop 2y agoOn Arch this stuff is easy. I use GDM as the login manager and launch pretty much whatever DE I like from there at login time. I use nix too, though rootlessly with nix-portable.