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    Fedora 24 - Replacing Gnome?

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    • scottalanmillerS
      scottalanmiller @bbigford
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      @BBigford said in Fedora 24 - Replacing Gnome?:

      Linux noob here... I know there is a distro of Fedora 24 with Cinnamon, but I installed the one with Gnome and am trying to figure out how to replace it rather than just boot and nuke with the other ISO.

      There is both Fedora 24 with Cinnamon AND Korora 24 which is built from Fedora 24 with Cinnamon added. The later is what you want.

      Same with Ubuntu, you can do Ubuntu 16.04 with Cinnmon, or you can do Linux Mint 18 which already has Cinnamon.

      In both cases, the one that comes with Cinnamon and is designed as an integrated whole is far superior.

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      • scottalanmillerS
        scottalanmiller @Alex Sage
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        @aaronstuder said in Fedora 24 - Replacing Gnome?:

        @BBigford Normally you pick the GUI at login. Do you see anything?

        Yup, just log out and back in. At log in, look for a drop down list of options.

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        • bbigfordB
          bbigford @scottalanmiller
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          @scottalanmiller said in Fedora 24 - Replacing Gnome?:

          @aaronstuder said in Fedora 24 - Replacing Gnome?:

          @BBigford Normally you pick the GUI at login. Do you see anything?

          Yup, just log out and back in. At log in, look for a drop down list of options.

          This is all I get after installing Cinnamon and logging out... Top right drop down doesn't show anything related to Cinnamon.

          0_1471461270928_gnome.png

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          • scottalanmillerS
            scottalanmiller
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            That's the right drop down. It's not populating for some reason.

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            • bbigfordB
              bbigford
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              Even did sudo dnf install @cinnamon-desktop-environment.

              Uninstalled the gnome shell, but couldn't get a cinnamon shell installed. Will pick back up tomorrow.

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              • scottalanmillerS
                scottalanmiller
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                No reason to be uninstalling Gnome, in fact that will break things since Cinnamon is built off of Gnome. Why are you uninstalling?

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                • scottalanmillerS
                  scottalanmiller
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                  Cinnamon is an extension to Gnome 3, not a replacement of it. Just as MATE is an extension of Gnome 2.

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                  • bbigfordB
                    bbigford @scottalanmiller
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                    @scottalanmiller said in Fedora 24 - Replacing Gnome?:

                    No reason to be uninstalling Gnome, in fact that will break things since Cinnamon is built off of Gnome. Why are you uninstalling?

                    Did not know it was an extension of Gnome. Strictly a lack of knowledge on my part.

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                    • bbigfordB
                      bbigford
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                      Cinnamon on Fedora doesn't look quite as sleek as it does on Mint...

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                      • scottalanmillerS
                        scottalanmiller @bbigford
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                        @BBigford said in Fedora 24 - Replacing Gnome?:

                        Cinnamon on Fedora doesn't look quite as sleek as it does on Mint...

                        Nope, because the one is just the framework, the other is all set up and tweaked.

                        Use Korora instead. Trust me.

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                        • momurdaM
                          momurda
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                          Or you can get crazy and just install many different desktops to try them out.
                          Enlightenment, KDE, Cinnamon, MATE, all available to choose at login.

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                          • stacksofplatesS
                            stacksofplates @bbigford
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                            @BBigford said in Fedora 24 - Replacing Gnome?:

                            @scottalanmiller said in Fedora 24 - Replacing Gnome?:

                            @aaronstuder said in Fedora 24 - Replacing Gnome?:

                            @BBigford Normally you pick the GUI at login. Do you see anything?

                            Yup, just log out and back in. At log in, look for a drop down list of options.

                            This is all I get after installing Cinnamon and logging out... Top right drop down doesn't show anything related to Cinnamon.

                            0_1471461270928_gnome.png

                            I had to reboot to get other DEs to show up.

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                            • stacksofplatesS
                              stacksofplates @momurda
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                              @momurda said in Fedora 24 - Replacing Gnome?:

                              Or you can get crazy and just install many different desktops to try them out.
                              Enlightenment, KDE, Cinnamon, MATE, all available to choose at login.

                              Or i3 🙂

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                              • bbigfordB
                                bbigford @stacksofplates
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                                @stacksofplates said in Fedora 24 - Replacing Gnome?:

                                @BBigford said in Fedora 24 - Replacing Gnome?:

                                @scottalanmiller said in Fedora 24 - Replacing Gnome?:

                                @aaronstuder said in Fedora 24 - Replacing Gnome?:

                                @BBigford Normally you pick the GUI at login. Do you see anything?

                                Yup, just log out and back in. At log in, look for a drop down list of options.

                                This is all I get after installing Cinnamon and logging out... Top right drop down doesn't show anything related to Cinnamon.

                                0_1471461270928_gnome.png

                                I had to reboot to get other DEs to show up.

                                That ended up being the case.

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                                • bbigfordB
                                  bbigford
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                                  So I went to check out KDE and I couldn't find a match when trying sudo dnf install kde-desktop-environment... I had to do @kde-desktop-environment... Why the need for @ in regards to that package?

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                                  • stacksofplatesS
                                    stacksofplates @bbigford
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                                    @BBigford said in Fedora 24 - Replacing Gnome?:

                                    So I went to check out KDE and I couldn't find a match when trying sudo dnf install kde-desktop-environment... I had to do @kde-desktop-environment... Why the need for @ in regards to that package?

                                    It's a group of packages. Like yum group install

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                                    • bbigfordB
                                      bbigford @stacksofplates
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                                      @stacksofplates said in Fedora 24 - Replacing Gnome?:

                                      @BBigford said in Fedora 24 - Replacing Gnome?:

                                      So I went to check out KDE and I couldn't find a match when trying sudo dnf install kde-desktop-environment... I had to do @kde-desktop-environment... Why the need for @ in regards to that package?

                                      It's a group of packages. Like yum group install

                                      So like installing all of the dependencies? Where it's not just one package, it's a grouping of packages...

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                                      • bbigfordB
                                        bbigford
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                                        Also checked out Korora as Scott suggested... Nice. Looking at Zorin right now... also nice. Solus is something that is very odd... still haven't figured out much online. Threads say eopkg is the package manager, but you have to use sudo pisi, not sudo eopkg... haven't spent much time on that one yet. Cause GitHub suggests that pisi is the discontinued package manager... but I have Solus updated to the latest version.

                                        http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=solus

                                        " Solus is a Linux distribution built from scratch. It uses a forked version of the PiSi package manager, maintained as "eopkg" "

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                                          • stacksofplatesS
                                            stacksofplates @bbigford
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                                            @BBigford said in Fedora 24 - Replacing Gnome?:

                                            @stacksofplates said in Fedora 24 - Replacing Gnome?:

                                            @BBigford said in Fedora 24 - Replacing Gnome?:

                                            So I went to check out KDE and I couldn't find a match when trying sudo dnf install kde-desktop-environment... I had to do @kde-desktop-environment... Why the need for @ in regards to that package?

                                            It's a group of packages. Like yum group install

                                            So like installing all of the dependencies? Where it's not just one package, it's a grouping of packages...

                                            Ya. Kickstart config have the same syntax. If you ever look at the package list you'll see single packages and a group with @ in front.

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