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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?
It's already packaged on multiple distributions, albeit in an unofficial capacity. If you are on Pop!_OS, you can install the
cosmic-sessionpackage today, then enable Wayland in the gdm3 config. We have anapt-managetool which you can use to add development branches. A popdev branch is created for each branch on GitHub pushed by a team member.