Right?! I’ve just assumed the GNU/Linux nitpick to be a meme at this point. An old and tired one at that…

You expect a different outcome every morning?

This sucks, I know. I just responded to a friend’s message from two months ago, and I’ve felt bad about not responding since then. But life happens, and for me at least it had nothing to do about that friends behaviour.

It’s meaningful to me, and meaningless to the internet.

I’ve done this with debian in the past, you just install different DE in parallel. Works well enough, don’t remember it causing any issues. It just makes a mess of your home folder, so I don’t do it outside of testing purposes.