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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] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I haven’t had much issue installing multiple.

The biggest problem I’ve had is if you then want to uninstall one. Usually have to start over.

Something like nixos might be able to handle that much better.

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

Can confirm have switched around DEs quite a bit on my NixOS machine

Only concern is config files get left over, switching from pantheon to gnome caused some settings to get messed up (pantheon is based on gnome and also uses gsettings)

Though that's not a concern if you embrace it fully and do all your gnome config declaratively

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

For me, it's incredible how easy it is to switch DEs. 1 line to enable gnome, and 1 for GDM and you've got GNOME. Change to Cinnamon and LightDM for Cinnamon, etc. (and remember to rebuild) So easy!

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

Man I tried to install the DDE over the fedora workstation and it just did not look right at all. I couldn't even view any apps as the app menu was completely blurrred. Nothing look like it should have looked with deepin