[SOLVED] Changing desktop environments in ubuntu 20.04 to cinnamon remix
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Changing desktop environments in ubuntu 20.04 to cinnamon remix
I recently switched my Ubuntu 20.04 DE from Gnome to Cinnamon-Remix and I prefer the remix to Gnome. I was wondering if there would be a potential problem with my system if I removed Gnome from my system and if not how do I do it.
Potentially, you may lose some Gnome applications that you might want to use at some point.
There is no problem with having multiple desktop environments and window managers installed in the same system. Unless you have a ridiculously small hard drive by today's standards, my advice would be to leave it alone.
As I remember it the packages responsible for doing it are named with a -desktop in them. The ubuntu-desktop is what installs the basic gnome version like the kubuntu-desktop will install that for you. You can remove them if you wish but the space taken should not be huge. The only drawback to having them installed, besides the space taken, is the updating of packages all the time that are never used.
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