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 20:26:23 GMT Lines: 25 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net sddMrQl6mVOamM/Ds1vfFw+kHaRUM0hJElBRkSRqOXKbofstpA Cancel-Lock: sha1:klsbyPrykcszWgOCJQB3fQT+Xzc= sha256:6Ueh0SlEQzZLPxItGmIT0burTSrk6XrVXqmz3yFwtqs= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:81920 On Tue, 10 Feb 2026 12:55:06 +0000, 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. I forget the distro but it started with a GNOME2 DE and I added KDE. It sort of worked but it was a little fragile when updating and there were some strange effects. Even with i3 on top of Cinnamon and sway on top of KDE I'm careful about invoking GUIs from the other DE. With an offline iso creating a new VM is easy. That was a learning experience too. The openSUSE iso is 4.2 GB, too big to copy to a thumbdrive with the default vfat format so I had to format it to exfat. Neither Endeavour or LM are that big.