If I were to decide to change from KDE Plasma to Gnome (or XFCE), how would I go about that?
Don’t get me wrong, I love Endeavour, buit I want, maybe, to play with other toys.
I’m not sure how to change DE ,but I do know having more than 1 DE on a distro is looking for trouble.
And btw ,endeavour is a distro ,not a DE.
So u can stay on endeavour and try another DE, that some1 else might help u with
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Yes, Endeavour is a distro with the KDE Plasma DE, in my case. What I want to know is can I change from KDE Plasma to XFCE (or GNOME) without reinstalling Endeavour.
KDE is not the default desktop, it’s the result of a choice you made during installation.
You can install other desktops, but for best results, I recommend a clean install.
I see OK thanks 
I’m pretty sure you can install XFCE alongside Plasma.
The DE comingle issues arise in other DEs that may borrow from existing DEs. Which basically gets down to library conflicts.
You can make a backup. Install XFCE. Worst case it fails and you can’t fix your system (although you should be able to if you have a bootable ISO and chroot into your system.)
if you shrunk your KDE partition and made an equal space for Gnome (I vote Budgie for you), make partitions, install it with its own bootloader,…then I don’t know why they could not live side-by-side, happily every after, etc.
Personally I would just put Gnome on its own disk since it reduces potential headaches.
Also if you choose to do so, you can install without a graphical desktop. I cant remember where I found the instructions but here is the info for installing openbox.
Boot from the Galileo ISO, or the latest ISO
Arm devices, go to https://endeavouros.com/endeavouros-arm-install/
and install the image for your ARM device on a uSD or other storage device.
Select "No desktop" during the Calamares install.
After Calamares install, reboot
switch to TTY3 (Ctrl-Alt-F3)
Login and run:
git clone https://github.com/EndeavourOS-Community-Editions/openbox.git
cd openbox
bash openbox-install.sh (see if this is executable, if not "chmod 755 openbox-install.sh")
Reboot and login via lightdm
Remove the openbox folder in your home directory.
When I changed from cinnamon to gnome I dropped to a tty and basically burned down everything to pacstrap.
Removed configs. And installed gnome.
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dam* that is original. pacstrap? far out. Removed configs by not importing /home?
asking for a friend
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You should have a system that is robust - I was very happy with mine until the point that it made a ‘Pffffff’ sound followed by a fairly sharp crack and rather acrid smell… my second rate PSU failed, and took down my motherboard and processor (no chance to replace with used parts).
So new hardware comes in, we do a fresh install, and then manually copy back whatever files are relevant to the new desktop. Some things are universal, but there are a lot of crossovers between DE’s.
So rule 1 - have backups to a separate drive. Rule 2 - export a complete pkglist too, 'cos there’s bound to be a ton of stuff you forgot… but at least you want to be sure you won’t forget important things whilst leaving some crud and bloat behind.
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I keep /home on a separate partition, so this is easy as deleting the .dot folders and reinstalling over the / partition and reusing /home where all my files reside. I know others keep their stuff on a separate data partition, I just never liked doing that.
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I have both KDE and Xfce installed on the same system.
It may cause some minor issues with some very specific apps, but mostly those are easy to solve.
Note that program eos-packagelist can show what to install for each DE.
But as others say, clean install is the most trouble free.
Note that you can install one or more systems into virtual machines. That way you can avoid conflicts easily. Just need to have the disk space and enough RAM.
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It’s probably on here somewhere when I went from cinnamon to gnome maybe 2021 ish??
I was on Arch and wanted to keep my long install going. I was up to a couple years on the same install at the time. But ya. I removed pretty much anything that was cinnamon related. Then installed gnome following the install wiki again
Edit I just realized I hit the 5 year mark here.
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