Following on from my Installing Arch Linux with KDE post, installing GNOME instead of KDE is very simple.
When editing the /etc/inittab file from the KDE guide, uncomment the gdm line and not the kdm one
# Example lines for starting a login manager #x:5:respawn:/usr/bin/xdm -nodaemon x:5:respawn:/usr/sbin/gdm -nodaemon #x:5:respawn:/usr/bin/kdm -nodaemon #x:5:respawn:/usr/bin/slim >/dev/null 2>&1
I’ve always kept an interest in Linux and I normally check out the latest version of Ubuntu, however after hearing so many good things about Arch Linux I decided to download a copy and give it a try.
The default desktop environment for Ubuntu has always been GNOME, so I decided to install KDE, this guide will step through what I did to install Arch Linux and then install KDE on my system.
I have used KDE before via Kubuntu, however I thought I would try Arch Linux becasue as they say, it’s a lightweight distrobution that keeps things simple
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This means I can install a clean copy of KDE and install only the applications I want.