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Desktops: KDE Plasma Desktop

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Desktops: KDE Plasma Desktop

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- [Instructor] The KDE Plasma Desktop is a popular desktop environment that's the default for some distros, including openSUSE, and a variety of distros like Kubuntu, Fedora KDE Plasma Desktop Edition, and others. Plasma Desktop works with both the X and Wayland display servers, and it uses sddm, the simple desktop display manager. To install Plasma Desktop, if you don't already have it, you can use your system's package manager to find and install the Plasma Desktop package and all its dependencies. I'll install it here on Ubuntu. First, I'll update my package lists, and then, I'll write install apt install plasma-desktop sddm, and I'll add console on there too to make sure I install the native terminal for Plasma. As with most other desktops, installing this will take awhile, so we'll speed up the video here. Once Plasma Desktop is installed, I'll reboot, and then, when my system restarts, here in the graphical…

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