Gentoo supports slots; which allows for concurrent installations of things like desktop environments. Not sure if it's configured that way right now though.
If you use BTRFS you could install gentoo on a subvolume and boot into it when needed too.
@arran4@voracread With some specific packages there are conflicts between different versions, so you can only have one at a time installed even if they have different slots. I think a few of the core KDE packages are like that. I know that I had to remove some parts of KDE 5 when I installed KDE 6 on my Gentoo system.
I just installed it in this very moment and I'm texting you from the new Fedora KDE Spin installation - Touchpad gestures work ootb, I just find some design choices kinda... uhm, questionable I'd say. Nevertheless, it runs fine overall!
i have kde on a ThinkPad x1 yoga and the experience from plasma 5 to 6 got a whole lot smoother. try it Out. could ne that you need to configure a few things but its awesome
Anything you can do in GNOME you can do in Plasma.
Just beware that for the first time in your GNU/Linux life, you can CHOOSE how everything works, instead of being forced into a specific paradigm. For some reason some GNOME users find it disturbing 😅 (it's a joke guys calm down).
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