Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Kewl. Common Desktop Environment 2.5.3 Released Date: 10 Feb 2026 20:01:49 GMT Lines: 21 Message-ID: References: <187f87f9767214b8$43779$4031116$802601b3@news.usenetexpress.com> <10habf6$15qla$1@dont-email.me> <10hbejb$n003$1@news1.tnib.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net KpFIDH+rkz5KwodPXhsw6gmBBrCp3tf4A5J0JfEv7b6ZW4yIy8 Cancel-Lock: sha1:0wgc4UDYJ3thufdfuYqyP0UnAE0= sha256:2I0ilIP8wlV5M889ivm01QC9+pufz5fp+peIu0BW17I= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:81918 On Tue, 10 Feb 2026 11:41:22 +0100, 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. Because I have the offline iso. Delete the old VM and select KDE for the new installation and it doesn't have to phone home. The only thing I'd installed on the GNOME version was Vim, so it was no big deal. The offline iso also has Xfce but my preference is KDE. I used to use SUSE because it was KDE when other distros tended to be GNOME. GNOME 2 on Red Hat Linux wasn't too bad. GNOME 3 might be acceptable if you could figure out the extensions but I'm not into 'ricing' a DE. Just a taskbar with the stuff I use would probably be good enough but I couldn't get past the stupid Windows 8 (MacOS?) look.