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   The Natural Philosopher to Carlos E. R.   
   Re: Kewl. Common Desktop Environment 2.5   
   10 Feb 26 13:36:22   
   
   From: tnp@invalid.invalid   
      
   On 10/02/2026 13:09, 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.   
   >   
   But will it delete all the clag?   
   I've often had major software changes fail where a fresh install does not   
      
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