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The best results that we had were in Virtualbox on x86-64, where the environment launches successfully, and displays its dock and top panel, complete with controls. Lomiri is an option in Debian Bookworm, but while it installs and runs, it's not ready for daily use yet Installation of Lomiri also installs Canonical's Mir display server, which it requires, and we found that if we had another desktop already installed, Lomiri failed to launch. From our experiments so far, we advise starting with a bare installation of Debian 12, with no other graphical user interface or display server installed. We've tried it on a few different machines now, on both Arm64 and on x86-64, the latter on both bare metal and in a virtual machine.

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If you're curious, this means that it's very easy to give it a try – you can install it with a single command: It's not one of the desktops offered in the Debian installer, but the Lomiri desktop, complete with Mir display server, is in the Bookworm's repositories. We misunderstood what this implied: he didn't mean that it now runs on Debian, but rather that as of Debian 12 'Bookworm', it is part of Debian. What made this possible to get it into Debian was the effort we did on renaming and dropping legacy dependencies.

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Along with changing its name, now it's much more cross-platform, but we must confess that we missed the full significance of what lead developer Marius Gripsård told us at the time: As we covered back in February, Lomiri's Ubuntu dependencies – and trademarks – have been cleaned up. Lomiri is the now cross-platform desktop environment that was formerly called Unity 8, which Canonical cancelled in 2017. Maybe the DBUS developers have a point: desktops are like buses… you wait for ages, then two of them come along at once: Lomiri on Debian, and GSDE, the GNUstep Desktop Environment.īoth the new offerings focus on Debian for now, although that may well change in time, and although both are quite different to more mainstream offerings, they each have roots in tech that's been around for some time.

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