u/brunostborsen

I wanna switch to Gnome without reinstalling. I know how to install the Gnome pattern in YaST, but uninstalling KDE is where I’m a little uncertain.

Can I just uncheck/uninstall it in YaST or will that mess up something else up? And if so what would I need to install together with Gome to keep it from happening?

I’ve done some searching but it seemingly just work as easy as described above and that makes me a little skeptical.

Oh, I’m on Tumbleweed, not scared of the terminal or tinkering.

EDIT:

Installing it now. Stoked!

Edit2: Holy shit everything is crashing and bugging on Wayland. I must have screwed something up. I’m gonna try a reinstall.

Edit3: 5 Installs later, I still can’t get this to work properly. It’s harder than Arch. 😂 (DE is gone when I restart after I’ve mounted a drive in either Yast or KDE partition manager) I’m about to just install Fedora or Arch instead.

Edit4: It had nothing to do with mounting the drive. It was changing to the Breeze theme that did it. Looks like the installation didn’t add some necessary drivers. «Install-new-recommends» fixed my issue.

Been using Arch for almost a month, Cachy for a couple months before that and Fedora a few months early last year. My Arch install is fine, but I used ext4 instead of btrfs as my file system and I wanna try btrfs for the snapshot features. I was originally thinking to either install Arch again or the new Fedora.

But, Tumbleweed seems like a cool distro. I’d get sort of a middle ground between Arch and Fedora. I don’t mine a little tinkering during the initial setup or whenever I’m trying to get something new to work.

Issues my research tells me I likely will have out of the box is getting an Xbox One controller to work with Bluetooth but seemingly most people get that to work somewhat easily.

I’d use it for normal computer stuff, gaming new and old games, emulators etc. stuff that works fine on Arch and Fedora.

So, is it worth trying it over the more mainstream options mentioned above?