Easy way to try out a bunch of different DEs?

I’m planning on moving (back) to Linux from Windows, but I’m not sure which desktop environment I want to use. What’s the easiest way to try them all out? Just do a bunch of dnf/apt installs? Is there a distro or project out there that makes this easier?

Looking to try out kde, gnome, budgie, cinnamon, xfce, others

Vilian,

NixOS or fedora ostree

BCsven,

VMs are a way, but Live USB sticks are better because you will see how it actually runs on your bare metal machine, and if there see any hardware quirks, without comitting to an install

nawordar,

Ventoy is a godsend in that case. If you have a big enough USB stick, you can just put all distros you wanna try on it

padook,
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I take any chance I can to drop a Chris Barnett link:

Ventoy

furzegulo,

yeah, i also wholeheartedly recommend ventoy

atzanteol, (edited )

Not sure about others but in PopOS (and I assume Ubuntu) it’s pretty simple. Probably easy with most distros.


<span style="color:#323232;">apt install gnome-desktop
</span><span style="color:#323232;">apt install kde-standard
</span><span style="color:#323232;">apt install xubuntu-desktop
</span><span style="color:#323232;">apt install cinnamon-desktop-environment
</span><span style="color:#323232;">apt install xfce4 xfce4-goodies
</span><span style="color:#323232;">etc.
</span>
pastermil,

Usually when you have multiple DEs installed, the login manager would let you choose.

Just need to make sure the autologin don’t get in the way of your choice (e.g. select it thru autologin or disable it completely).

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