From: bowman@montana.com   
      
   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.   
      
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