10-16-2015, 06:28 AM
Hello!
A power user or few around here have managed to pull off installing other DEs into Linux Lite, but unless you know EXACTLY what you're doing, it's DEFINITELY a BAD IDEA! LL just wasn't designed with such a thing in mind.
Depending on the DE one chooses, even Ubuntu has issues where you end up with more than one of a certain program. On top of that, things can start to get confusing for the OS, leaving reinstallation as the only solution.
A good example of this is trying to add XFCE to Lubuntu. There are certain aspects of it that 'take over' the entire OS. The login screen is just one thing that comes to mind.
VMs are the best place to 'play', but with as many machines as I have around here, I just go 'all in' on one of them outside of a VM environment, and keep the old images backed up to reinstall later. Sometimes, it's hard to exactly simulate what may happen on an actual PC in a VM...
73 DE N4RPS
Rob
A power user or few around here have managed to pull off installing other DEs into Linux Lite, but unless you know EXACTLY what you're doing, it's DEFINITELY a BAD IDEA! LL just wasn't designed with such a thing in mind.
Depending on the DE one chooses, even Ubuntu has issues where you end up with more than one of a certain program. On top of that, things can start to get confusing for the OS, leaving reinstallation as the only solution.
A good example of this is trying to add XFCE to Lubuntu. There are certain aspects of it that 'take over' the entire OS. The login screen is just one thing that comes to mind.
VMs are the best place to 'play', but with as many machines as I have around here, I just go 'all in' on one of them outside of a VM environment, and keep the old images backed up to reinstall later. Sometimes, it's hard to exactly simulate what may happen on an actual PC in a VM...
73 DE N4RPS
Rob
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