I’m using Fedora Kinoite since a while, and I really like it. There’s just one thing I don’t understand, and have a hard time finding an answer to.

What happens in my home directory if I rebase to Silverblue? Like, Gnome and its apps comes with a lot of config files. If I then roll back to Kinoite, will all those files and folders still be there? How can I prevent this cluttering of files and folders that I don’t want to keep? I guess the easy answer would be to create a new user and then delete that home directory after rolling back, but I’m wondering if something else will happen. Thank you!

  • @[email protected]
    4•8 months ago

    Home is mutable, and the mess that at least KDE does (not sure about GNOME) make removing its traces really hard.

    I should write a script to remove all traces of KDE on a system, or to back everything up and import it etc.

    Find me on Github if you want to help collect all the directories and files.

    Its a total mess and can cause a ton of issues. The easy way to test DEs is to use a separate user account per Desktop. Lol.

    • @KlavKalashjOP
      1•8 months ago

      That is what I feared. Using another user is a solution but it feels inelegant. I wish there were some middle ground, like being able to pin the home folder or something. I’ll take a look at your github!

      • @[email protected]
        1•8 months ago

        I had another idea, collect the locations (you can create a PR just listing them commented out) and then move the files to ~/.config/kde and hardlink (ln -S) them to the used locations.

        Iconsets and maybe themes are also problematic and not directly KDE related, but these are the ones that cause compatibility issues.

        I would also like to separate it between core Plasma (what Kinoite has installed) and the full KDE suite, and I would focus on core Plasma first.