I have read many conflicting things, like always. Just wondering if there’s a safe way to use several DE’s on one distro without messing up my damn computer lol I’ve tried it several times and it always messed things up. I’m currently brand new to fedora workstation 38 too btw. Thanks alot
Brings back memories.
My last experiment with that was a few years ago and I thank the creator of debfoster for the help to clean the house up after.
Unless things have changed and you run perhaps a fully containerized system or mannually install just the DE without any bundled SW, you’ll face DE seepage. KDE will throw new programs into the user space that will show on GNOME, getting a windows manager will probably throw conky into the system, Cinnamon will throw a few other things into the pile, and so and so forth.
My personal experience taught me that the system loads those resources for any user to access at will.
If you are looking to evaluate which DE will be the better fit for you, I’d advise trying one by one for at least a week or go for live mediums.