What software have you found particularly frustrating or difficult to configure on Linux?

  • Ephera@lemmy.ml
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    29 days ago

    Normally, the process is:

    • install the packages for the desktop environment
    • log out (not just locking the screen)
    • find a dropdown or cogwheel where you can select the other desktop environment
    • log in

    Having said that, I don’t know what you mean with “graceful”. Desktop environments may involve lots of packages, which may create configuration files in your home directory or get auto-started in your other DEs, so it can be messy.
    Something minimal, like LXQt or the various window managers, isn’t going to cause much of a mess, though.

    I guess, creating a second user with a separate home-directory, like the other person suggested, would isolate that potential mess…