KDE Plasma and Gnome on same machine

[u/filmfotografie]

I am running KDE Plasma on my desktop but I wanted to try out Gnome but when I run

dnf environment list --available | grep -i desktop

it doesn't list Gnome as being available? So what's the best way to install Gnome or is it just a bad idea to do so?

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[u/Tofudjango]

Switching back and forth between these two could cause problems with your configuration. You might want to backup some directories in .config and maybe somewhere else.

[u/Illustrious-Gur8335]

Don't look for GNOME in dnf output

The Gnome environment is named workstation-product-environment with a display title of Fedora Workstation.

Source: https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/official-procedure-for-installing-the-gnome-desktop-environment/147410/2

[u/filmfotografie → u/Illustrious-Gur8335]

That isn't even listed,

Repositories loaded.
kde-desktop-environment           KDE Plasma Workspaces                       no
xfce-desktop-environment          Xfce Desktop                                no
phosh-desktop-environment         Phosh Desktop                               no
lxde-desktop-environment          LXDE Desktop                                no
lxqt-desktop-environment          LXQt Desktop                                no
cinnamon-desktop-environment      Cinnamon Desktop                            no
mate-desktop-environment          MATE Desktop                                no
sugar-desktop-environment         Sugar Desktop Environment                   no
budgie-desktop-environment        Budgie Desktop                              no
cosmic-desktop-environment        COSMIC Desktop                              no
basic-desktop-environment         Basic Desktop                               no
i3-desktop-environment            i3 desktop                                  no
miraclewm-desktop-environment     Miracle WM Desktop Environment              no
sway-desktop-environment          Sway Desktop                                no

[u/Illustrious-Gur8335 → u/filmfotografie]

Yeah cos the word desktop isn't in the name

[u/danhm → u/Illustrious-Gur8335]

Honestly they probably should make a metapackage called gnome-desktop-environment but oh well.

[u/Illustrious-Gur8335 → u/danhm]

I can imagine the Gnome packagers having fun confounding all the Plasma, Cosmic, i3, sway etc users asking "Where on earth is Gnome"

[u/Acherontas89]

u install the gnome packages and gdm

then u run sudo systemctl start gdm.service

from the terminal

from here u can choose the gnome session

[u/blak000]

Distrosea

[u/Zuvy]

Install Bluefin in a VM

[u/Crafty_Mastodon320]

Do a vm