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On Saturday 31 December 2016 22:29:07 Felmon Davis wrote:
It does for now. It went through a phase of having LXDE available as well.
This strikes me as a good choice. Named after a rather beautiful place, too!
But you are still installing an OS and a DE, and could install other
additional DEs after installation if you wished.
On Sat, 31 Dec 2016, Lisi Reisz wrote:
TDE does not always go well with KDE 4+. I personally tend to avoid putting
those two together. But others will know more about this than I do. One can
certainly normally install extra DEs, but this may be a case where it does
not go well, both for the reason I have given and because the two (DE and OS)
do appear to be rather entangled in this case.
On Saturday 31 December 2016 17:56:59 Felmon
Davis wrote:
I think I am.
suppose I now install Trinity. should I let it
write to the mbr or
rather to its own partition?
I am confused, or you are confused, or we are both confused. Trinity is a desktop environment, not an
operating system.
you're right, of course. I usually install DE and OS together. thus
the conflation.
The mbr doesn't come into it. Install the
relevant operating
system, with or without a DE, then install Trinity from the Trinity
repositories as you would any other software from your distros
repositories. Then it cannot muck up your other OS's.
here another point of confusion: NetRunner uses KDE4 (or KDE5, not
sure).
can I really install Trinity side-by-side with it?
I figured I should format a partition and do an install of Trinity
(ok, debian + trinity).
That might be simpler, so long as you are clear that Debian with Trinity is
not the same thing as an OS called Trinity!
It is, if you
wish, possible to use one of the available Live CDs to
install an OS with Trinity already installed, and the default DE, just as
most Debian newbies install Debian with Gnome and most Ubuntu newbies
install Ubuntu with Unity. But you don't have to do so, and I never do.
I install Debian, and then add Trinity.
I usually install exegnu which defaults to trinity as DE.
thanks for clearing my mind about an aspect of this.
so I can install OS and Trinity on separate partition.
Yes.
or (?) install Trinity on top of NetRunner.
In general one can, but I fear that this may be the exception that proves the
rule. :-( Anyone?? I don't know NetRunner, and had to look it up. I am
always cautious about mixing any version of KDE and Trinity. To do so would
certainly not muck up your mbr, but it might muck up your NetRunner!
Lisi