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?
I tried it, think it was pretty cool but of course buggy since it’s alpha. Can’t wait for where it will be in another year. I can see it replacing gnome in the future, but not plasma. Plasma has way too many features and is so far ahead.
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.
Support for all the virt interfaces would be awesome.
agree, QXL is slower as compared to virtio in my testings
