because the command you gave me would not overwrite the symlink.. and I even ran it as root but it still refused. No clue why really but honestly I didnt care enough to find out. So I manually created a new symlink to teh sddm file. Then later on I created one (overwriting the default) to the LightDM service file. All to no avail.
And by boot correctly in last nights escapades I mean that this time... I did not even get a mouse cursor... just black.
And I did remove the Gnome bits but this time I did it individually after 'sudo --exclude='qemu* libvirt*' remove gnome-<package-name>' which after many of these the GDM was removed, I ended up reinstalling GDM* which in turn reinstalled every BLASTED thing that I had just removed beforehand. So frustrating.
I did check the contents of /var/lib/sddm/state.conf and it references gnome-desktop of all things! Why is it so bloody hard to change the Display Managers up in here??
@Joe So are you meaning that I should mask or delete the symlink to my current DM, maybe reboot then create one for teh other.. like SDDM or LightDM?