Re: Re: Kde Plasma Desktop Vs. Ci
By: Accession to Nightfox on Tue Feb 03 2026 06:12 pm
>> That was my thought as well. But I've seen people online recommend against
>> installing a desktop environment that doesn't officially come with the
>> distro.
Ac> Why not? You can install any desktop environment on any Linux distro. You
Ac> should stop believing everything you read online. ;)
Ac> https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-install-kde-plasma-on-linux-mint
Yeah, I've actually installed KDE on Linux Mint, and it does work. I was just a
little skeptical after seeing people recommend against doing so. Also, years a
go, I had installed Cinnamon on Ubuntu..
Also, while it works, the version of KDE Plasma included in the repo for Linux M
int is a 5.x version, which is older than the one included in KUbuntu 25.10 (6.x
). I also noticed a couple features in the display settings that weren't availa
ble, which are available in the 6.x version included with KUbuntu. I imagine it
would probably be fine, but for now I decided to install KUbuntu as it has the
newer version of KDE Plasma. And I think it looks & works fairly well.
I was mainly wondering about what would happen when I try to update to the next
major version of the distro and if anything would break.. I haven't tried that
with an alternate DE installed.
Nightfox
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