<div dir="ltr">Evan, as I had said in the lightning talk at the August meeting, I just moved from Ubuntu 16.04 to Kubuntu 17.04 on three computers. <div><br></div><div>I had first tried installing the KDE environment on top of Ubuntu 16.04. While there's lot of chatter that it's easy to do this with Synaptic Package Manager, I highly recommend against this. The installation of KDE caused a problem "Unity greeter doesn't show other desktop environments, yet allows login to Unity" that I <a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lightdm/+bug/1686130">reported with the Ubuntu lightdm package</a>. Since Canoncal is ceasing development of Unity, this problem wasn't going to be fixed.</div><div><br></div><div>The better way to handle mutliple desktop environments is to have separate root partitions for each Linux distribution that you're going to install. This is relatively easy with an xBuntu manual installation. I first had to move \home onto its own partition, and found that the KDE Partition Manager (booted from a Kubuntu 17.04 live USB) <a href="https://ingbrief.wordpress.com/2017/07/13/gparted-fails-kde-partition-manager-succeeds/">worked</a> when GParted (booted from an Ubuntu 16.04 live USB) did not.</div><div><br></div><div>With this success, I've just had some free time come up, so I'm going to do some more disk partitioning to have multiple Linux distros on the same physical disk(s). Across the xBuntu distros, using the same \home and \swap partitions will work. Since the different partitions have different roots, it does mean reinstalling some of the same packages multiple times (e.g. LibreOffice could be at different versions for different distros).</div><div><br></div><div>I am new to KDE, having using Gnome and then Unity on Ubuntu since 2008. I made the change after some research, including a watching a talk by <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I29GsxYNlPk">Jonathan Riddell on KDE Neon at the FlossUK Spring Conference 2017 on Youtube</a>. I like that the KDE community has revamped their development methods, with rapid releases under continuous integration. Practically, however, I do use GTK apps and want some stability, so I've gone with Kubuntu rather than KDE Neon.</div><div><br></div><div>I had tried the Cinnamon desktop on top of Ubuntu 14.04 some years back. The results weren't consistent with the experiences related by others. My suspicion is that Mint Linux with Cinnamon is better integrated than just installing Ubuntu and putting on the Cinnamon desktop.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 1:57 PM, Evan Leibovitch via talk <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:talk@gtalug.org" target="_blank">talk@gtalug.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><span class=""><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:#0b5394"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">On 31 July 2017 at 13:11, </span><span dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><<a href="mailto:dbmacg@look.ca" target="_blank">dbmacg@look.ca</a>></span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"> wrote:</span><br></div></span><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><span class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Mageia 6 supports over 25 desktop environments and window managers.<br>
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You can load them all, and then go from one to another.<br></blockquote><div><br></div></span><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)">Being able to load multiple desktops onto a single system isn't the issue. I can do that under Mint.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)">So I'm not interested in the theoretical "you can do this". I would like to find out if anyone has actually tried swapping KDE to/from GNOME and whether it worked or not.</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)">- Evan</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)"><br></div></font></span></div></div>
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