On 27/09/2024 18:53, George at Clug wrote:
3) I am not confident that constant switching between display manager, e.g. LightDM, SLiM, XDM, GDM, SDDM, KDM, Ly will not cause issues. Besides the frustration of changing the configuration each time you want to jump into another DE.
Is it really necessary to switch DM to start another DE? OK, when I tried GNOME last time ~3 years ago on Ubuntu, there was vendor lock-in to GDM due to usage of some API outside of XDG specs. I faced some issues with GDM (so I am avoiding it), but it was possible to use another session type. LightDM and SDDM have menus to select session type as well.
I would avoid using the same home directory for running different versions of some application (different distributions or stable/unstable), but I do not expect much issues after logging in with different session type from the same installation.
Certainly "clean" GNOME and KDE installs and a mixed case may reveal different bugs. An intermediate approach is to create a user per DE.
4) Logging into different DEs does not provide for Windows/Arch Linux/Ubuntu/Linux Mint/Manjaro multiboot scenario.
I just expect that more corner cases might arise for booting multiple variants of specific distribution than for different distributions.
Booting into completely different installations on different disk drives works very well,
I am completely confused. From my point of view it is in contradiction with
I have often wanted to boot several Linux distributions, but have failed to dual or multi boot from multiple Linux installations.
Does it mean that you physically replace drives instead of configuring UEFI or Grub menu?
