So I’m using Fedora 38 with KDE Plasma I recently installed with one line I found online, and I was wondering if it were possible to remove GnomeShell. I tried using the command sudo dnf remove gnome-shell, and it gave me Error: Problem: The operation would result in removing the following protected packages: gnome-shell (try to add '--skip-broken' to skip uninstallable packages). I did try --skip-broken but that didn’t work as It thinks I’m trying to break my system. anyone ever done this before, and know if I could do this without breaking my system.
Try this: sudo dnf remove gnome-shell --setopt protected_packages=
See also: https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/is-it-possible-to-switch-completely-to-to-kde-from-gnome/66747
Just recently did the same. The answer with the “migrate-gnome-kde.sh” helped me.