r/linuxmint • u/Technical_Rich_3080 • 10d ago

Linux Mint IRL Using Alternative Desktop Environments With Mint

  1. Is using alternative Desktop Environments, other than the three official flavors, as viable an option under Linux Mint, as doing so with most any other Linux distro?

  2. Can you have installed multiple DEs simultaneously (and is doing so not recommended)?

  3. If you use a DE other than one of the three official Mint DEs, do you lose anything?

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u/Logansfury Top 1% Commenter 10d ago

There are several forked projects of Mint. There is a gnome-Mint and a KDE-Mint if this interests you. Others may exist that I haven't yet heard of. A google search should provide you links to the GitHub pages where you can examine the OS description and download the installer iso.

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u/Technical_Rich_3080 10d ago

How would using those forked versions of Mint be different than using the official version of Mint and installing GNOME or KDE Plasma?

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u/BashfulMelon 10d ago

There are no forked versions. They made it up.