I have tried it on several distros before and it always causes problems because you get a million more packages intermingled with your already installed packages and sometimes you get conflicts or whatever. But it usually messes up my system. is there a safe way to have several desktops installed? or do you pretty much install a new one then remove the old one? thanks

  • @KISSmyOS@lemmy.world
    5•7 months ago

    I’m on Slackware, so having 2 different desktop environments and …checks notes… 5 window managers installed is the default.
    I’ve never noticed any conflicts.

    I feel like a lot of frustration and 50% of broken installations could be avoided if people just learnt to ignore installed packages they don’t use, instead of spending valuable time to free worthless amounts of disk space.

    • @Macaroni9538OP
      2•7 months ago

      You see, through all my trials I have learned about DE’s and display managers but nothing about window managers… maybe that’s my issue haha