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How to Install KDE Plasma on Linux Mint 22 (linuxiac.com)

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While Cinnamon is great for many users, KDE Plasma provides a flexible and powerful alternative, particularly for those who desire a more dynamic and configurable desktop environment.

In this guide, we’ll cover everything you need to know to successfully install KDE Plasma on your Linux Mint 22 system.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

@ReversalHatchery I mean, that’s fair. But if your gripe is with Ubuntu there are plenty of other KDE-focused distro releases to go with (KDE Neon, Fedora KDE Spin, Kinoite, etc) that would probably accomplish this in a cleaner fashion. You’d also get Plasma 6 as opposed to Mint’s KDE 5.

Adding a Qt-based DE to Mint’s GTK-focused environment just seems a little messy and wasteful in storage. It’s fully possible and to each their own, but… why, when there are better ways to use KDE?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Opensuse!

Yast is one of the most fully featured package managers and tumbleweed is damn good and they lean fully into KDE.

I even run opensuse Kalpa (KDE immutable) and it is pretty rock solid outside of steam flatpak.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

I don't have experience with the others, but KDE Neon will shit itself if you upgrade it with it's custom upgrade tool after leaving it unused, or just un-updated for months.

To answer the question, when I get this idea I never remember which other distros would be worth to try, but also it's often for use in a resource constrained environment enough that I can't afford anything that insists on snapshotting on every change.