Just one week after the [1]Archinstall 2.8.2 update, another release of this command-line driven Arch Linux installer is now available for quick and easy Arch deployments.

Notable for users with Archinstall 2.8.3 is adding a COSMIC desktop profile option for that Rust-written desktop environment developed by System76 as part of their Pop!_OS distribution. COSMIC is still in an alpha state but has already begun seeing packaging and adoption outside of Pop!_OS. For now the COSMIC desktop profile within Archinstall is hidden behind the "--advanced" advanced settings flag.

It was in early August that System76 [2]released the COSMIC alpha ahead of the planned stable first release later in the year.

Archinstall 2.8.3 also brings some package selection tweaks, refactors some of the Btrfs code, adds a Catalan traslation, and other fixes.

Details for those interested via the [3]Archinstall GitHub .



[1] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Arch-Linux-Archinstall-2.8.2

[2] https://www.phoronix.com/news/System76-COSMIC-Alpha

[3] https://github.com/archlinux/archinstall/releases/tag/v2.8.3