looking around online it seems possible but apparently not a good experience? i think the posts were a bit old so maybe something has changed since then
Edit: i don’t want to hop distro, i just want to change the desktop manager.
looking around online it seems possible but apparently not a good experience? i think the posts were a bit old so maybe something has changed since then
Edit: i don’t want to hop distro, i just want to change the desktop manager.
The only thing “bad” about it would be that you’ll need to start with a default KDE configuration (which is still very clean and pretty), but since KDE is very customizable, it should not be that much of an issue.
I love KDE (which has technically rebranded to “Plasma”), and it’s a great experience. If you’re worried, go find a distro like Bazzite or Garuda and install whichever version has Plasma in a Virtual Machine to see what it’s like. That way, you can decide what you think about it.
Or if OP wants to stay in the Debian/Ubuntu based branch: KDE Neon, Debian with KDE (+ LMDE repo), or Kubuntu 22.04 + Mint repos.
i’d rather not hop distros entirely, the way in understand it desktop interfaces like cinnamon and plasma run on top of the actual OS, so it’s possible to swap them without having to reinstall. i could very well be wrong tho
Yes, that works. Just install some KDE plasma desktop metapackage of your choice and, if you like, you can remove cinnamon and related GTK packages afterwards by removing
libgtk.neat! gonna try in in a vm first
That’s always a good idea
15 years ago.
And people still call it KDE or KDE Plasma to this day. Rebranding is hard.
And Plasma is a stupid name XD
Just call it “KDE apps” and keep the name of the DE as KDE. It just makes sense.
It’s not really a rebranding. KDE is still KDE. Plasma is the new system they are using for KDE, which was introduced with KDE version 5 and now continue on using it as their base for KDE version 6. So strictly speaking, Plasma is not a rebrand of KDE, it’s just the underlying technology of it. Think of kind of Linux as the core of a Linux distribution (just a vague analogy, so don’t quote me on this now).
To make that more clear, you can use KDE software without Plasma desktop in example. … Yeah thinking of that, Plasma is probably just the desktop and all its functionality. KDE is way more than just the desktop.
Like for example KDE for Windows, where the system is not even Linux.
True, I forgot about that, since the original context is specifically DE’s.
I second bazzite and add Aurora or just plain Fedora Kinoite.
Vanilla Plasma configs are fine, you may want to remove some things like the floaty floaty stuff and maybe remove the start screen (as it doesnt work and just delays system start).