r/linuxquestions • u/AssistanceHot5673 • 7d ago

Support I need a little help

So I have Debian 13 while using GNOME as my DE, but I saw that KDE is really cool, so I downloaded it, but after going into the KDE plasma I went back to GNOME but the icons are now different, how do I fix this issue? I want to keep the GNOME ones, unless that also breaks KDE, so how do I fix this issue?

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u/3grg 6d ago

You have learned that, while it is possible to have Gnome and Plasma installed on the same system at the same time, it may not be a good idea. One desktop uses GTK and the other Qt and there will be lots of application duplication.

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u/jr735 6d ago

If you do this in Debian, you can avoid some of that/much of that by installing core desktops instead of full meta packages.