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On Tue, 10 Feb 2026 14:09:25 +0100, 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.

Perhaps. My experience is that can get weird and I prefer not to.