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    [–] [email protected] 66 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (17 children)

    I love how I can just casually uninstall the entire desktop and install a new one in a few minutes.

    Or I can be a complete madman and keep both.

    [–] [email protected] 21 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (16 children)

    genuinely curious since I've never tried or even considered it. What happens when you have multiple desktops installed, and assuming it doesn't cause issues why would a person want to do that?

    [–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (8 children)

    There's no added value to having multiple desktop environments, so almost no one would want to. A lot of applications use DE sensitive configurations and there's potential for conflicts as well as libraries incompatibility. Which can result on paradoxical and bizarre behavior from some graphical apps. It's odd that it happens but it's also not something devs plan or account for, so they aren't even considered bugs. You don't install multiple DEs at the same time unless you're purposefully trying to break something or you don't know better.

    The only use case currently is choosing between a DE with X or one with Wayland. But even that one could fuck your system.

    For example, opening cinnamon experimental Wayland makes all my flatpaks stop working until reboot. Why? I don't know, nobody knows. But if I keep using Wayland after reboot they work. If I change to regular cinnamon, they break again until reboot, when they get fixed as long as I keep using regular cinnamon. It just be like that.

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

    This is so wrong. Especially the assumption that almost no one would want to have more than 1 DE installed.

    Most DEs have their own configuration which don't conflict.

    If the maintainer of a distribution has their shit together library incompatibility is no issue. Even on Gentoo you have to ignore everything portage is trying to tell you before you get in trouble.

    In the past I even ran two DEs at the same time, sort of. You could start an xfce-panel while using enlightment or good old classic windowmaker.

    Later I used Gnome and running my own fork of dwm in a nested Xserver. With wayland this option hasn't gone thanks to Xwayland.

    If systemd is correctly set up for it, you get a different seat for every DE, no matter if some seats are hosting the same DE or a different one. I am not sure what will happen if you have several graphical logins with the same user, never tried it.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

    Especially the assumption that almost no one would want to have more than 1 DE installed.

    I am not so sure about this. Over the years this is first I've even heard of the concept

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