[ubuntu-studio-devel] availability of alternate DEs

[Jonathan Aquilina]

That’s what would be great to see. Have you used centos? In that installer you can choose what packages such as DEs to install. What Ubuntu has should do the same

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> On 07 Oct 2018, at 18:01, Len Ovens <len at ovenwerks.net> wrote:
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>> On Sun, 7 Oct 2018, jaquilina at eagleeyet.net wrote:
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>> I do like this direction things are going to be fair with the below suggestion.
>> 
>> Just some food for thought. Let us say i install normal ubuntu. if i install the meta package for kde version of studio obviously the gnome stuff will be removed and then the new KDE stuff will be installed right?
> 
> Actually no, one can run as many DEs as they would like to. KDA (Plasma) can live along side gnome just fine.
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> There are relatively few conflicts between Studio and vanilla. The kernel while not strictly a conflict does need tweaking to make sure the right one runs if there is more than one. Some of the Codex we install do require the simpler codex package be removed, though that doesn't affect regular desktop use but rather extends it.
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> If we were to try allowing the user to DL and install a different DE at install time, the user would also be able to choose not to install the DE the ISO comes with.
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