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Is it a good idea to use KDE plasma on linux mint? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Or if OP wants to stay in the Debian/Ubuntu based brach KDE Neon, Debian + KDE (+ LMDE repo), or Kubuntu 22.04 + Mint repos.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

neat! gonna try in in a vm first

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Always a good idea

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

I used Kubuntu and KDE Neon in the past. Cannot recommend them really.

KDE Neon maybe as they ship the modernized desktop, but people had tons of issues on the Plasma 6 upgrade, while on Fedora Kinoite literally nothing happened.