Hi all,
in my home pc I currently run 12.1 KDE - (my first ever KDE attempt) and I really like it! the pc is older (4 yrs old) but still performs decent. On my main pc (Asus N53J) I currently run 11.4 (Kernel 2.6.37.6-0.9-desktp, Gnome 2.32.1) and in general performs fine - I have some minor issues with sound and USB 3.0. Since I start to like KDE I was wondering if I can do an upgrade from Gnome to KDE (without having to add KDE as a second step) (Gnome 3 - didn’t really like it; looks like unitity to me, and that was one of the reasons I left Ubuntu)
thanks,
Dimitris
On 2011-12-19 20:06, darlac wrote:
> Since I start to like KDE I
> was wondering if I can do an upgrade from Gnome to KDE (without having
> to add KDE as a second step) (Gnome 3 - didn’t really like it; looks
> like unitity to me, and that was one of the reasons I left Ubuntu)
> thanks,
I you really are doing an upgrade (not a fresh install preserving /home),
then you do the upgrade as usual, and after done and working, you add the
kde pattern.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)
You could add KDE as a first step then upgrade everything, but that would make for a bigger upgrade to 12.1.
Maybe you don’t want both desktops installed? If I was ditching Gnome in favour of KDE, I would do a clean install of 12.1 KDE to a new partition. Makes sense now to get the preferred platform setup ideally for future upgrading, and if you have enough HD resource on your main pc, you can multiboot that new KDE system/partition alongside your 11.4 Gnome partition.
thanks guys;
I have 2 partitions (250GB each) - one for data in NTFS (so I can access if needed from virtual windows) and the other ext4 with the system etc; is it possible to have the ext4 divided so I can install KDE alongside, do a smooth transition and then remove the Gnome one?
if I decide on the upgrade, manually removing Gnome apps will result in lighter KDE version?
probably I will take advantage of the coming holiday break to do a clean install - I always preserve /home folder for such cases…
cheers,
Dimitris
On 2011-12-19 21:36, darlac wrote:
>
> thanks guys;
> I have 2 partitions (250GB each) - one for data in NTFS (so I can
> access if needed from virtual windows) and the other ext4 with the
> system etc; is it possible to have the ext4 divided so I can install
Divide an existing partition, with data? No.
> KDE alongside, do a smooth transition and then remove the Gnome one?
> if I decide on the upgrade, manually removing Gnome apps will result in
> lighter KDE version?
No. Just less files on the system, and that you will not use some of them.
Look, I have both gnome and kde, and use one or the other as the wind
blows. Not only those, I have probably them all, so that I can choose. Why not?
For example, now I’m running gnome 2, and I burn dvds with k3b. I choose
the tools I need each time…
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)