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danie10@squeet.me
Danie

How to Install KDE Plasma in Ubuntu, Debian and Mint: Because you have Choices

Linux KDE desktop showing a taskbar along the bottom . The left side of the desktop is showing a window pane with a selection of different widgets to install e.g. for Activities, Application Menu, Audio Volume, etc. To the right side is the colourful desktop background in orange, blue and grey colours.
KDE Plasma (KDE) is a well-known desktop environment for Unix-like systems designed for users who want to have a nice desktop environment for their machines, it is one of the most used desktop interfaces out there.

Linux distros usually ship with one main desktop environment, but you can install others without reinstalling the distro. I have Manjaro KDE as my distro, but I also have Gnome desktop installed on it as an alternative desktop, and I can switch between them from the login screen. This is because the underlying Linux kernel across all the distros is the same one. The distros just add their choice of desktop, theming and apps on top.

The key thing is to be sure you install all the dependencies it expects to find, and the linked article below will show how to do that.

See tecmint.com/install-kde-plasma…
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mkwadee@diasp.eu
Khurram Wadee

I can finally say I've upgraded successfully to #Fedora40. It was not without hassle this time and it started with what seemed to be a system that did not even give me a prompt after #rebooting, although the update process had seemed to go smoothly and quickly. Luckily, the virtual screens were working and so I could #login to a #shell. Although #sddm didn't seem to be working, #kdm was and so I was able to open a desktop session, but only in #Gnome. There were still problems running #kde #programs such as #konsole and #korganizer as some #qt #libraries were missing. Installing those allowed the programs to run. Also, no #audio devices were being detected and so I couldn't play any clips, etc.

Today I found that #kwin was also lacking a library (#qtsensors) and so after that was installed and I rebooted the machine, I found that sddm was working again and so I could log in to the #kde session that I usually do. Also, the #sound issue was solved by removing the directory #wireplumber from ~/.local/state.

#GNU #Linux #Fedora #F40 #FreeSoftware

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thanatosincarnate@pod.geraspora.de
Thanatos die immer skurrilere Minderheit

KDE MegaRelease 6

"KDE’s next mega release is here! With Plasma 6, our technology stack has undergone two major upgrades: a transition to the latest version of our application framework, Qt, and a migration to the modern Linux graphics platform, Wayland."

https://kde.org/announcements/megarelease/6/

#kde #desktop #linux #opensource #free #software #qt6 #wayland

KDE MegaRelease 6

The KDE community proudly presents Plasma 6, Frameworks 6 and Gear 24.02

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z428@loma.ml
Kristian

To be fair, as I've been muttering before: #KDE Plasma on a weird Bluebird tablet (we might remember), on this device it feels by far more concise and stable than GNOME. Things to do with family too. 😁
Fedora Linux doing an update on a tablet computer.

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z428@loma.ml
Kristian

(And leaving #KDE ... once again. Though this time it doesn't even seem to be KDEs fault but rather, well, a weird fault of complexity in somewhat fragile infrastructure, most notably the wayland/pipewire setup on a Debian stable based system. Point here: With GNOME it seems easier to remain on Xorg which, in turns, despite in a disputable state of maintenance, still works more stable and reliable. KDE/Xorg, on the other side, ended up in a re-occuring nightmare of trying to get my display setup to work every other day. Maybe I'll buy a new external screen supporting HiDPI at some point, but in the given setup. GNOME seems the least bad option. And yes, this all is an utter and b_____ mess. .😔)

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