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submitted 1 year ago by Macaroni9538@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml

I have read many conflicting things, like always. Just wondering if there's a safe way to use several DE's on one distro without messing up my damn computer lol I've tried it several times and it always messed things up. I'm currently brand new to fedora workstation 38 too btw. Thanks alot

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[-] gamey@feddit.rocks 16 points 1 year ago

It can mess with configs, themes and some other annoying stuff so I never did it again but there is no big risk or anything, it's just a little tedious to fix small things afterwards!

[-] Macaroni9538@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

ahhh I see, I don't quite know how to configure and tweak the new DE to work properly though. I also read to use different usernames for each DE, but I don't see why that matters.

[-] gamey@feddit.rocks 2 points 1 year ago

If you create multiple user accounts you can contain the user specific parts for those accounts if I am not wrong, certain thing will probably still be a little messy but I only tried it on the same account before and never did again, that could pribably help a little!

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