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On Tue, 10 Feb 2026 15:20:31 +0100, Marc Haber wrote:

> So is Debian and Fedora. But I would recommend doing such experiments at
> least with a clean account. I have experienced cases where a tested new
> Desktop Environment left settings in ~ that also influenced the behavior
> of my usual Desktop Environment. Getting rid of that influence was a
> major hassle. I would believe that this could happen on any
> distribution.

That's my experience -- it *mostly* works. I didn't mind experimenting 
with Xfce on a LM MATE installation since I planned to go to a fresh 
Cinnamon install. Even with i3 I found that starting MATE GUIs got into 
some strange area fixed by rebooting.