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

  • nous@programming.devEnglish
    42·
    1 year ago

    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,

      • addie@feddit.uk
        21·
        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.

      • azvasKvklenko@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        10·
        1 year ago

        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
        • Macaroni9538@lemmy.mlOP
          1·
          1 year ago

          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

          • azvasKvklenko@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            2·
            1 year ago

            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.