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

  • Skull giver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl
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    1 year ago

    I’ve never had trouble with package conflicts. You get duplicates for just about every built-in application (password managers/calculators/calendars/etc.) if you install all the recommends, but they should all work together as long as you don’t enable foreign PPAs and other known conflicting package sources like that.

    I tried KDE a while back and it seems to add a boatload of services and tools, so when I went back to Gnome I removed leftovers for weeks; I really should’ve made Timeshift take a snapshot.