CachyOS - Change from Gnome to KDE

Is anyone aware of a guide or step by step process for this? I have been searching but am lowkey Linux stupid with a lot of things and can’t seem to find a guide for cachy. I imagine any old arch guide will do also?

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jeffreyosborne@lemm.ee · 19 pts · 2y (3 replies)

CachyOS is arch based, which allows you to use the holy ArchWiki. https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/KDE Is what you're looking for. Good luck!

aStonedSanta@lemm.ee · 5 pts · 2y (2 replies)

Thank you. This is what I ended up using. Swapped to SDDM. Then removed gnome. Things seem to be good. Gnome-desktop and gnome-desktop-common appear stuck due to lutris but I’ll figure that out later

jeffreyosborne@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Glad it worked! And what do you mean stuck? As in that you can't remove them?

aStonedSanta@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 2y

Yeah. Gives an error. But they were not auto removed when removing gnome or gnome-essentials so they might be required.

bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de · 9 pts · 2y (2 replies)

Don't know about Cachy. But the general way is to just install KDE and then change where you want to go in your login-manager. You might have to disable automatic logins to get that.

Many distributions have some kind of meta package that installs everything KDE related called kde, kde-desktop or plasma-desktop.

After everything is running how you like it you may remove all Gnome packages and install sddm instead of gdm as a login manager. But that's optional.

aStonedSanta@lemm.ee · 6 pts · 2y (1 reply)

This is exactly what I was looking for confirmation on based on my limited reading lol. Ty. I’ll attempt this. If I brick it eh. I love tinkering. 💜😆

lurch@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 2y
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mactan@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 2y

wish it was easier to get the cachy kernel, the checksums on the aur pkg are always outdated