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

                        @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.

                        Looking at the package list, do you mean it shows something like this (did a dnf list installed)?

                        0_1471550330754_1.png

                        If that's the case, how come around the Cinnamon section, there's no @cinnamon-desktop-environment ?

                        0_1471550361505_2.png

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                        • stacksofplatesS
                          stacksofplates
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                          Well to see the groups you would run dnf group list. I'm not sure if that's exactly what that is showing you.

                          For example in a minimal kickstart all you will normally see is

                          %packages
@core 
%end

                          I think it's just how they package everything, so you don't have single package dependencies. I could be wrong though, I never looked into it.

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