# Why is rebasing between desktop environments bad?

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**Created:** [February 26, 2024, 7:50pm UTC](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/t/why-is-rebasing-between-desktop-environments-bad/690 "2024-02-26T19:50:13Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 27, 2024, 1:47am UTC](https://universal-blue.discourse.group/t/why-is-rebasing-between-desktop-environments-bad/690/4 "2024-02-27T01:47:11Z")

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We need a way to powerwash a machine or to keep the data but make a new user: [Investigate a state reset feature · Issue #95 · ublue-os/main · GitHub](https://github.com/ublue-os/main/issues/95)

Fundamentally it’s ridiculous that apps stomp on each other’s dotfiles and that should be fixed, but it wasn’t a problem people cared about before. Maybe this can be a forcing function. 🙈 🙉 🙊

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