Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "Carlos E. R." Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Kewl. Common Desktop Environment 2.5.3 Released Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2026 14:51:27 +0100 Lines: 35 Message-ID: References: <187f87f9767214b8$43779$4031116$802601b3@news.usenetexpress.com> <10habf6$15qla$1@dont-email.me> <10hbejb$n003$1@news1.tnib.de> <10mf9ra$3ku5p$4@dont-email.me> <10mfc8m$3lv19$1@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net fu1ukm9gJ7hOw9QwT0Bn8Acd4TcDK71dv2EE4bgDMUop9cENZC Cancel-Lock: sha1:/cA0S6WwJetrhi6oaZsR7sHWr44= sha256:jOTSpGox1xMcW6p69Tf5bOJ2mS6u/xkYkYat8nU71Bg= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Content-Language: en-CA, es-ANY In-Reply-To: <10mfc8m$3lv19$1@dont-email.me> Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:81903 On 2026-02-10 14:36, The Natural Philosopher wrote: > On 10/02/2026 13:09, Carlos E. R. wrote: >> On 2026-02-10 13:55, The Natural Philosopher wrote: >>> On 10/02/2026 10:41, Carlos E. R. wrote: >>>> On 2026-02-10 05:35, rbowman wrote: >>>>> I was messing around with a VM on another machine and loaded >>>>> openSUSE Leap >>>>> 16 with GNOME. As we used to say, that sucks green donkey dicks. >>>>> Delete >>>>> VM, reinstall with the KDE DE. The host box is Fedora/KDE so they look >>>>> pretty much the same. >>>> >>>> Why reinstall? Just use the package manager and install plasma, >>>> remove gnome if you wish. >>>> >>> That does not always result in a clean install. >>> >>> deleting a test VM is trivially easy too. >> >> openSUSE is designed so that you can install any desktop. Even all of >> them at the same time. >> > But will it delete all the clag? > I've often had major software changes fail where a fresh install does not There is a missing feature which is deleting a pattern. There is a functionality to remove dependencies when removing a package, though.ยก (in myrlyn). However, you can simply switch the greeter and that will stop loading libraries from the other desktop, before starting the desktop. -- Cheers, Carlos E.R.