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a passively nodal intravenously networked nervous-system fleabag with a smile :)

anarch-esperantisto who enjoys various weird things, like film photography, ham radio, writing systems, and ancient operating systems (win2000 to OS/2 to UNIX),

and big cats!

blanket CW: im weird sorry
there might be kinks here!

also @degarf

god i hate gnome so much lxafognf ks gnq hynrUamutnar

#genuinely awful in its influence over the Linux world #i hate it so much

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in reply to @cathoderaydude's post:

Plum @plumpan5/6/2023, 4:04 PM

Oh no, who put you in Wayland hell :(

EDIT: What distro is this, this is hilarious. I WANT TO KNOW WHO DID THIS

gravis again @cathoderaydude5/6/2023, 4:11 PM

fedora latest, after I installed kde-desktop and switched to sddm this is how it came up

Plum @plumpan5/6/2023, 4:15 PM

I knew it.

If you're up for messing with DEs, I'd give the whole XFCE spin of Fedora a try. Or Ubuntu (Xubuntu). Juggling DEs on the same install tends to get... messy. As you've seen.

But that's also part of the fun, isn't it?

cthuflu @cthuflu5/6/2023, 5:40 PM

but also if you uninstall the plasma or gnome groups it uninstalls sddm and so many tools that are unquestionably not plasma or gnome

Plum @plumpan5/6/2023, 5:49 PM

The Fedora "spins" are basically the distro but coming with a different DE out of the box. So it's not uninstalling the other DEs, it's uninstalling the whole OS to try a different DE. Not something worth doing outside of "fucking around to find out on a spare computer" testing.

Because when you try juggling DEs, silly things like you described happen. It's not just the UI it's whole sets of tools and program groups and it just gets.... so, so messy. :(

cthuflu @cthuflu5/6/2023, 6:04 PM

my main desktop is one those such environments where it started with plasma, and I swapped the group for xfce after some performance issues.

I kept trying to solve it wanting to automatically remove sddm and so many dependencies, but there is no way to pin a package.

Plum @plumpan5/6/2023, 6:06 PM

Pin how so? Apt can do mark-hold so I'm sure yum can do similar... but that's very quickly getting into dependency hell.

cthuflu @cthuflu5/6/2023, 6:25 PM

i couldn't find a way for yum (now dnf) to do so for keeping a package in those groups. Otherwise it's "do not track this package for installs or upgrades" with a plugin