Trying out COSMIC on virtual machine
Trying out COSMIC on virtual machine
Long story short, it is pretty solid as an alpha release! I would have installed it on bare metal, if I have another computer.
If you are installing on 22.04, this post still valid, https://lemm.ee/post/25474700
if you are installing the official 24.04 Alpha iso, simply select to use QXL graphic on vm setup. no other changes needed in the OS level.
@mmstick, any plan to support virtio graphic?
Support for all the virt interfaces would be awesome.
agree, QXL is slower as compared to virtio in my testings
I installed it on my gaming laptop. The OS is solid, probably one of the best distros for laptops out-of-the-box and COSMIC is pretty good but have some rough edges like problems with tray icons and games, so I also did a quick "apt install gnome-session". I'll switch over to Plasma 6 in a little while when it's ready, never was a GNOME fan but it's ok for a couple of months.
When playing with COSMIC I use Nautilus as COSMIC Files is still missing features like adding smb shares and file compress/extract. I'll probably be able to use the DE full time later this year.