From: MikeE@ster.invalid   
      
   Rob H wrote:   
   > I think that is how I got the drop down menu on the said ubuntu machine   
   > by installing Plasma.   
      
   Well that's a pretty big deal in terms of introducing 'stuff' to an install.   
      
   > But when I uninstalled it, the drop down menu was still there   
      
   I don't like to 'junk up' a system which is installed by installing   
   'stuff' I'm interested in checking out.  My preferred 'testing   
   environment' is a live distro.  If I want to see KDE I boot a live KDE;   
   in fact, I might boot more than one or more than two.   
      
   There's actually a lot of diff between KDE neon and Kubuntu and they are   
   both kde on top of ub, and then there's the manjaro kde over arch and   
   the sparky and MX kde/s over Deb. And Texstar's was Mandrake now   
   independent distro's kde.  KDE is SO tweakable that distro dev/s get to   
   bring their own ideas to the DE.  Neon wins the prize for being the   
   'leanest' live to the desktop.  Of course that doesn't count Trinity   
   because it is TDE :-)   
      
   Installing something and then uninstalling it doesn't 'erase' what all   
   has changed.  Often.   
      
   And, the problem is that 'fixing something' in an install that is b0rken   
   or just 'bent' is a LOT harder than installing something from scratch   
   which itself is a bigger deal than booting something live. I suppose one   
   could take that down another notch by booting a VM, but I don't go there   
   in favor of booting the live USB Ventoy .iso.   
      
      
   --   
   Mike Easter   
      
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