Fedora’s KDE Spin is a good option if you don’t mind waiting a little for the latest KDE goodies. It’s not a rolling release, they delay major upgrades for a few weeks for stability purposes, and you only get one major upgrade of Plasma per release (Fedora 36 shipped with Plasma 5.24 and is now on 5.25, so 5.26 will be delayed for Fedora 37), but a new version of Fedora comes out every 6 sudo apt install kde-full. The total download size is a little higher. For the current Linux Mint version, it is around 1.5 GB, and the entire installation may take around 20 minutes. Installing KDE Plasma in Linux Mint. During installation, you need to choose the display manager since KDE Plasma uses SDDM. Select SDDM in the below screen when Everything you need to know about dual-booting Linux and Windows: 1) BIOS settings, 2) Shrink Windows partition, 3) Install Linux, 4) Set the boot order to boot Linux first. averagelinuxuser.com Click to expand If you are not interested in the software suite, you can just install KDE Plasma desktop in Ubuntu 20.04 using below command. sudo apt install kde-plasma-desktop. In case you want the complete package with all the KDE apps, you can install using below command. sudo apt install kde-full. I went on to install just the Plasma desktop on my Ubuntu Step 1: Running System Updates Let’s first ensure that all the installed packages on the system are up to date so that Step 2: Adding Kubuntu Backports repository The backports repository contains the new versions of KDE Platform, Plasma, Step 3: Installing KDE Plasma Desktop After adding the Re: KDE on LMDE 5 ( results ) Postby MiZoG » Thu Jul 28, 2022 3:20 pm. I have found a build of Debian that is packaged with KDE Plasma. It's the way to go. I recommend the "unofficial" debian-live-11.4.0-amd64-kde+nonfree.iso which includes firmware. Vanilla KDE + Debian Bullseye = lightweight + stable. KDE is a software project currently comprising a desktop environment known as Plasma, a collection of libraries and frameworks (KDE Frameworks) and several applications (KDE Applications) as well. KDE upstream has a well maintained UserBase wiki. Detailed information about most KDE applications can be found there. To install KDE Plasma on Linux Mint, type the following command in the terminal: sudo apt install kde-plasma-desktop. During the installation, you'll be prompted to configure the display manager PrtDuEN.