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Lemmy is the first place I heard about changing distro to change DE. Just install the other DE.
It doesn't always go well, especially with beginners, I've tried Plasma on Ubuntu and decided to go back to gnome, spent whole lot of time trying to purge all the Plasma bloat but couldn't
That is a reasonable comment. There is so much overlap between cinnamon and GNOME though that I doubt it is an issue.
If you use the nala apt frontend, it comes with a history command like Fedora. Really useful for undoing specific changes.
There's usually some kind of integration between the DE and the underlying system that isn't replicated by installing the DE without a bunch of configuration. But yeah, the line is definitely blurred nowadays.