How can I revert back to Zorin Core?

Installing Zorin OS
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I recently switched my desktop environment from Core to Zorin Lite using this command:

sudo apt install zorin-os-lite-desktop

The installation went ahead successfully and the XFCE-based environment was installed. Now I want to revert back to Core, what's the equivalent command or way to do that?

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Open Synaptic package manager and search for anything commencing with Zorin: it should either bring back gnome desktop or core. Can't check as posting from smartphone.

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Thank you! There's indeed a menu on top of the login screen to choose between desktops. I haven't yet decided to remove Xfce and it is great to be able to choose.

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After logging in to Zorin Core, I am unable to remove the Xfce desktop.

sudo apt remove zorin-os-lite-desktop is not working.

Package 'zorin-os-lite-desktop' is not installed, so not removed

Any pointers?

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Hi Folks,

I'm moving from windows-10 to Linux, dual-booting on the way.

I’ve tried Linux a few times but never really got it working. This time I will.
I installed Zorin Core 16.1 with the Gnome desktop and it worked fairly well.
Then I bought Zorin Pro 16.1 and installed it with the XFCE desktop and it is barely usable.
Fonts and icon sizes are all over the place, the cursor jumps all over the place, some parts of files are down below the bottom of the screen with no way to scroll to them.
Right now it is set up to boot directly to the desktop, bypassing the login screen.
Am guessing the best thing is for me to go back to the Gnome desktop.
Can somebody please tell me how do I do this?

Thanks and good health, Weogo

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I'm sure there are people who would like to actually run it and decide between Core and lite. i wish it was easy to switch between the two by GUI.

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I had auto-login enabled and forgot to switch the desktop environment and ran sudo apt remove zorin-os-lite-desktop while in Lite, so now it won't boot. it's difficult for me...

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The Zorin Lite desktop should never have icons out of view on screen, odd sizes on icons and fonts - something broke.
If possible, a complete reinstall of Zorin OS would be your best bet....
Clean out the broken packages that caused that above and get a fresh start...

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