Your Most Frustrating Configuration Experience?
Your Most Frustrating Configuration Experience?
What software have you found particularly frustrating or difficult to configure on Linux?
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I still don't fully understand how to gracefully have multiple desktop environments and switch between them. When I want to try something new to me like lxqt, I usually spin up a VM.
Normally, the process is:
- install the packages for the desktop environment
- log out (not just locking the screen)
- find a dropdown or cogwheel where you can select the other desktop environment
- log in
Having said that, I don't know what you mean with "graceful". Desktop environments may involve lots of packages, which may create configuration files in your home directory or get auto-started in your other DEs, so it can be messy.
Something minimal, like LXQt or the various window managers, isn't going to cause much of a mess, though.I guess, creating a second user with a separate home-directory, like the other person suggested, would isolate that potential mess...
Just add a new user
Create a different user for each desktop environment.
Put all the users in a group that has full write access to a shared folder you use for your files.Linux is a multi-user system, use that.