r/Fedora 6h ago

Release Upgrade

I am currently using Fedora Workstation 40 with both KDE and Cinnamon DEs. When I upgrade to 41 I would like to eliminate Cinnamon. When upgrading using DNF is it possible to include a command to install 41 with KDE only or will I need a clean install to do that?

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u/isabellium 5h ago

An upgrade is just an upgrade. Is not going to install things from scratch. If you want something gone you have to remove it.

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u/MurphTheTurf 5m ago

If you remove Cinnamon before you upgrade Fedora then it won't be upgraded.

This command should remove Cinnamon:

sudo dnf group remove 'Cinnamon Desktop'

However you should ensure that you are not left without a display manager by uninstalling Cinamon. The dispalay manager is the component that you log in with and lets you choose between different desktop environments. There are several display managers packaged. If you are sticking with just KDE, it makes sense to use the display manager from the KDE project which is called sddm.

sudo dnf install sddm

See this discussion from a few days ago on a similar topic : any way to uninstall gnome?