How to migrate from KDE Plasma to Gnome in Rocky Linux?

I have finally and belatedly done this migration using essentially this recipe. All went as well as can be expected. I have two systems here, and I did the upgrade on each.

I essentially followed the recipe above, approximately as follows (all as root):

  1. Removed KDE Plasma using dnf (dnf groups remove "KDE Plasma Workspaces")
  2. Cleared the SSSD cache (sss_cache -E)
  3. Installed Gnome (dnf groupinstall workstation)
  4. Disabled sddm (systemctl disable sddm)
  5. Enabled gdm (systemctl enable gdm)
  6. Restarted (shutdown -r now)
  7. Ran dnf update (dnf update)
  8. Restarted (shutdown -r now)

As nearly as I can tell, everything was fine on each system. I was happily surprised to find that the new gnome desktop discovered the several apps that are on my main system (tms-desktop) and created buttons for them.

I had to do the usual fire drill after updating virtualbox (adding guest extensions and guest additions). No problems, everything went fine.

I am exceedingly happy to see that I can again run dnf update without fear of breaking my desktop.

Life is good and I’m marking this topic as “answered”.

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