You can just install the new window manager to try it out and select it
when you login. Typically you can use a small gear icon to switch the
window manager on the login page before pressing enter or clicking the
button to login. My Fedora desktop has KDE Plasma, Gnome, Mint, and
Cinnamon, of which Gnome is my least favorite. It seems designed for a
touch screen or tablet. You can run KDE/Gnome apps on Mint, Cinnamon, etc
if it's installed even if you're not running it.
JD
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On Tue, Mar 22, 2022 at 5:27 PM Snyder, Alexander J via PLUG-discuss <
plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
> No, kubuntu is (or was) a thing. You should be able to strip your gui
> (desktop manager) out, leaving you at a terminal prompt. Then you should be
> able to install KDE.
>
> Thanks,
> Alexander
>
> Sent from my Samsung Galaxy S22+
>
> On Tue, Mar 22, 2022, 16:44 AZ Pete via PLUG-discuss <
> plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
>
>> All,
>>
>> I have been using Ubuntu as one of my desktops for a while, but have
>> always been irritated by how difficult it is to do customize things.
>> I was thinking of trying KDE, but do I have to re-install a new Kubuntu
>> O/S to have KDE or is there a way to install the KDE desktop on my Ubuntu
>> 20.04 (Gnome) desktop?
>>
>> Thanks
>> Peter
>>
>>
>> On 3/22/2022 3:44 PM, Matt Graham via PLUG-discuss wrote:
>>
>> On 2022-03-22 15:23, Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss wrote:
>>
>> In the past there has been some discussion about which is better
>> GNOME or KDE? I like Mint and I see it offers MATE (a fork of GNOME
>> 2) or Cinnamon (a fork of GNOME 3).
>> Does it matter?
>>
>>
>> KDE is very, very customizable. GNOME 3 is ... not. There has been a
>> remarkable amount of continuity in how KDE's applications have behaved (and
>> looked, if you want) since KDE 2. And no, not every application starts
>> with a K these days. Default file manager is dolphin not konqueror,
>> default image viewer is gwenview not kview, default screenshot taker is
>> spectacle not kscreenshot. So I prefer KDE but EPID and YMMV.
>>
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