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I have read many conflicting things, like always. Just wondering if there's a safe way to use several DE's on one distro without messing up my damn computer lol I've tried it several times and it always messed things up. I'm currently brand new to fedora workstation 38 too btw. Thanks alot

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've tried, but I've got lost quite fast.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

If you start with the default config and just modify it from there you can figure it out as you go

Installing software is usually just a case of adding the name to the package list in your config (you can find packages and options on search.nixos.org/packages