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this post was submitted on 19 Oct 2023
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I'm on Slackware, so having 2 different desktop environments and ...checks notes... 5 window managers installed is the default.
I've never noticed any conflicts.
I feel like a lot of frustration and 50% of broken installations could be avoided if people just learnt to ignore installed packages they don't use, instead of spending valuable time to free worthless amounts of disk space.
You see, through all my trials I have learned about DE's and display managers but nothing about window managers.... maybe that's my issue haha