From: robin_listas@es.invalid   
      
   On 2026-02-10 21:26, rbowman wrote:   
   > On Tue, 10 Feb 2026 12:55:06 +0000, 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.   
   >   
   > I forget the distro but it started with a GNOME2 DE and I added KDE. It   
   > sort of worked but it was a little fragile when updating and there were   
   > some strange effects. Even with i3 on top of Cinnamon and sway on top of   
   > KDE I'm careful about invoking GUIs from the other DE.   
   >   
   > With an offline iso creating a new VM is easy. That was a learning   
   > experience too. The openSUSE iso is 4.2 GB, too big to copy to a   
   > thumbdrive with the default vfat format so I had to format it to exfat.   
   > Neither Endeavour or LM are that big.   
      
   Why copy? I don't understand. The openSUSE isos are intended to be   
   "burned", they contain their own formatting and partitioning.   
      
   dd if=isofile of=/dev/sdX bs=16M status=progress   
      
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   Cheers,   
           Carlos E.R.   
      
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