| From: David Ing isss--- via talk <talk@gtalug.org> | The better way to handle mutliple desktop environments is to have separate | root partitions for each Linux distribution that you're going to install. Golly, that sounds like overkill. Or buggy distros. Or buggy Desktop Environments. I'm using Fedora 26 on this notebook. After I read this message, I installed KDE (alongside the standard Gnome desktop). Fedora has a lot of Desktop Environmants that you can choose to nstall. sudo dnf group install 'KDE (K Desktop Environment)' I then logged out, told GDM to make my session KDE (or maybe Plasma, I don't remember). It doesn't seem to be a problem. What symptoms should I be looking for in Desktop Environment clashes? I generally gave up fussing with desktops in the late 1980's. I got tired of "investing" and then having my choices washed away by the Next Thing. So I'm not too discenring and may have missed some problems. Fedora supposedly supports a bunch of Desktop Environments and I have no reason to doubt this. My son has some complaints about a light-weight Desktop Environment (LXDE?) and sound on an old Fedora. So not every DE works equally well.