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Is there a proper way to use several DE's on one distro or is it not advised? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I have read many conflicting things, like always. Just wondering if there's a safe way to use several DE's on one distro without messing up my damn computer lol I've tried it several times and it always messed things up. I'm currently brand new to fedora workstation 38 too btw. Thanks alot

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What things are being messed up? You should be able to just install as many DEs as you want without them interfering with each other - just select which you want on the login screen,

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

is it really that simple? I was trying ways to like separate them or block them from each other

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

No, it really is that simple. I've got Cinnamon installed since I prefer it for everyday; also, Gnome3 on Wayland for gaming (I've three monitors with different refresh rates, which doesn't work as you'd hope on X11). Log out, change desktop, log in again. No problems at all, except for more packages to update.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Pretty much, yes but they will interfere in few ways:

themes setup can get messy at times, but you should be able to easy override the settings
file associations can be inappropriate
you'll have varoius of app suits installed and app menus will have them all

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

man yoiu would think there's an easy way to keep the DE's seperate from one another to avoid any conflictions. without freaking VM damnit lol

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think it was PureOS or some other distros that allowed to run DEs in containers, but I never tried this. It all boils down to the dotfiles in your home. I used to jump between DEs on the same install and it was perfectly viable, just required a little manual work.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Or I wonder about gnome boxes....

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What do you mean separate them from each other?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

keeping them all from sharing the same files and configs and interfering with each other