Desktop change

Hi all. In package manager/desk top environments I see alternatives such as KDE. Can I try these by ticking the box or do I have to use some mystic formula in a terminal. And: will I lose any of my settings such as mail? I'm going to learn this little thing if it kills me!
Cheers.
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To change a desktop manager in Linux, you'll need to first get rid of autologin, so that you get a login screen that will allow you to change desktop managers.

There is a thread here about how to do this ...

http://www.aspireoneuser.com/forum/view ... f=39&t=363

Another user who has installed another desktop environment reported that when he switched back to Linpus, he lost some of his settings for KDE. Acer's Linpus obviously isn't designed to play nicely with other environments. A possible solution to this is to create another user, login as that user and only run the KDE environment with that new user. Adding a new user is discussed in this thread ...

viewtopic.php?f=39&t=6455&p=42659&hilit=gdm#p42659

Please note - I've not played with this at all. Just stuff I've picked up reading other's postings here. But, it should give you some idea about what you'll need to deal with and expect should you decide to try a different desktop environment.

Cheers.

 

I don't recommend installing anything over Linpus Linux. There are just too many Linpus customizations that break the way Fedora (the basis for Linpus) does things. Best way to try KDE (or any other distro/desktop environment) is probably from a bootable USB key. I'm not a KDE user, although I do check it out every once in a while. You might want to have a look at http://download.fedora.redhat.com/p...10-Preview/Live/i686/F10-PR-i686-Live-KDE.iso