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KaOS Explains Why It's Ending Its 12-Year KDE Plasma Era (linuxiac.com)
submitted 2 weeks ago by cm0002@lemy.lol to c/linux@programming.dev
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This past week, there has been some controversy about the new Plasma Login Manager, which launched with KDE Plasma 6.6 and requires systemd. Soon after, KaOS surprisingly announced it would stop using Plasma as its desktop environment.

Which, whichever way you look at it, is a significant shift, considering KaOS has used KDE for 12 years for its primary and only desktop environment and has always promoted itself as a Qt-focused and GTK-free Linux distribution.

As a response (though not directly addressing KaOS), KDE later shared its position on the matter, which I covered here. And then, a few days ago, KaOS posted an explanation of its decision on its official website.

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[โ€“] Die4Ever@retrofed.com 13 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Why not just keep using SDDM or something with KDE Plasma?

[โ€“] KindaABigDyl@programming.dev 6 points 2 weeks ago

Common Niri W tho