Trying Plasma for a bit to see how green the grass is as a longtime Gnome user. The last time I ran Plasma on my main desktop was version 5.11, I think? It’s been a while…

  • probably2high@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 days ago

    This is the first time I’ve heard of this, and I pretty much always have more than one DE installed and have never run into issues. Assuming you’re using a display manager (SDDM, LightDM, etc.), it should handle loading whichever graphical session at the time of login properly.

    edit: For clarity, what do you mean by “installing another DE *on top * of an existing one”–like kludging two DEs together in the same X/Wayland session? If so, that sounds like a horrible mistake that lead to that happening.

    • Ghoelian@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      1·
      3 days ago

      I mean in a way where you’d get 2 different X/Wayland sessions to select in your login manager.

      I have also never run into issues doing this, just have always been told it’s a bad idea.

      • bastion@feddit.nl
        2·
        3 days ago

        eh. only vaguely.

        basically, there might be some conflicts, such as a different icon theme being selected, but for the most part, things are fine - and most distros, uninstall is straightforward.

        one more significant issue you might run into is display manager changes. Gnome may not always play nicely with a kde display manager, and vice versa, regarding sleep, lock, etc. however, i think all of those issues are pretty much fixed these days.

      • probably2high@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        3 days ago

        Be free! Install all the DEs/WMs your heart desires.

        Regarding the multiple entries for X and Wayland versions of a particular DE: for the most part, I think xwayland has solved this, but as always–for better or worse–you have the freedom to go either way.