[SOLVED] Sanity question when switching from KDE Plasma on X11 to Gnome Wayland

[orchid rune]

I'm aware that KDE default uses SDDM, and Gnome uses GDM, so I want to make sure I'm not going to completely break anything. I've also got a few applications that I'd rather not have to completely reconfigure (Mostly just OBS actually).

So my plan is to run these commands in order, feel free to correct any errors:
pacman -S gnome gnome-extra
(I should not need to install gdm, as it is installed as part of the gnome group.)
sudo systemctl enable gdm.service
sudo systemctl disable sddm.service
At this point I will reboot into the gnome session (Gnome uses Wayland by default, so simply selecting a Gnome session should be all I need to do at login, and GDM should be what I see at login, instead of SDDM)
Removing KDE Plasma:
This is the more difficult part, as there are multiple package groups that I'm unsure of, even though the singular command would seem simple enough.
sudo pacman -Rns plasma plasma-meta plasma-desktop kde-applications
The only other thing I'm not sure of is if I should, or even can, remove SDDM as part of this process.

[blazing hatch]

@orchid rune sudo pacman -Rns plasma would suffice

[orchid rune]

So just removing the plasma group is enough to remove the other groups as well? Also, everything else in my plan looks to be in order and not likely to compromise anything currently?

I've also just looked and see that flatpak on that system has the kde application platform installed (org.ked.Platform). Will that need removal? I've gotten to where I use flatpak for a lot of things, simply because I don't have to worry about broken dependencies, so I'm not really worried about OBS breaking, since it's flatpak as well

[blazing hatch]

yes, but switch disabling sddm to be first then enable gdm

[orchid rune]

Awesome, thank you for verifying my sanity. I'll mark as solved as soon as I complete the process (which I'm starting immediately after typing this message).

[echo kite]

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[orchid rune]

Oh, One last question-ish. Removing KDE Plasma should remove anything related to X11 right? Excepting, of course, anything that gnome might need for applications that are still not Wayland compatible.

[blazing hatch]

no

why switch from plasma x11?

[orchid rune]

I have my laptop (KDE Plasma) next to my Desktop (Gnome Wayland), and want to use something like Barrier for using a single M&K for both, but it seems that there are incompatibilities when the two PC's are running differend DEs.

Also, I just like Gnome better.