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Excuxe me for bumping this, would it be safe for me to uninstall cinnamon to make space after the kde install? Or would I break things, would timeshift still function and be able to revert to the previous system state or would uninstalling the cinnamon environment break that?

viscid cargo Oct 25, 2025, 6:03 PM

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timeshift would not fully recover your system

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unless you did a full home + core snapshot

drowsy acorn Oct 25, 2025, 6:04 PM

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and how would you go about doing that?

viscid cargo Oct 25, 2025, 6:04 PM

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i wouldn't uninstall cinnamon.

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it will likely break something

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see the Timeshift app's help menu/document

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if ur gonna do a full userhome + core snapshot, make sure to delete ALL browser caches, fully and utterly

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plus go through a delete other caches manually, hidden in userhome folder

drowsy acorn Oct 25, 2025, 6:06 PM

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Might just stick with cinnamon probably the better choice here

viscid cargo Oct 25, 2025, 6:07 PM

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stick with KEEPING cinnamon. u can still run KDE Plasma fulltime

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just dont blow out cinn. as i said.

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and as tom from SwitchedToLinux said

drowsy acorn Oct 25, 2025, 6:09 PM

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viscid cargo stick with KEEPING cinnamon. u can still run KDE Plasma fulltime

See the thing im afraid about with doing that is the amount of bloat and instability i would add to my system by doing that, im unsure how well it would run, if itd cause conflicts and how much space it would it eat

viscid cargo Oct 25, 2025, 6:10 PM

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the leanest one he mentions adds about 800 MB i think

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or bit less. cant remember

empty stratus Oct 25, 2025, 6:23 PM

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Just use Kubuntu if you need an APT distro

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Installing a second DE is not worth the hours of debugging if things break

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