Just curious to know if anybody is using kde as their desktop and how good is it compared to gnome? Also how they went about installing it.
you can install kde on clear linux with sudo swupd bundle-add desktop-kde
and a web search of “kde vs gnome” will bring up many articles on the subject of comparison between kde and gnome
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I did, or at least tried to, but I had issues with Discover. I read somewhere that “Plasma Discover needs a plugin to deal with CL’s bundles and swupd. This plugin is not implemented.” Once it is, I’ll happily try it again.
Works for me Clear Linux runing KDE Plasma 5.24.4 - YouTube
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I just installed Clear Linux and I-m currently having to see your video with out-of-the-box Firefox. I plan to install KDE Plasma and Vivaldi browser, so thank you for your video even before I can finally watch it.
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Hi Kris, would you be able share your private video with me? I’m struggling to install CL with Plasma, have tried several different releases (just to be sure that I’m installing a stable version, have tried 39520, 400 and 240) of CL server and sudo swupd bundle-add desktop kde. It all appears to work, I manage to log in and then black screen with mouse cursor and that’s it. Hardware is fairly new, intel nuc 13 raptor canyon. Any assistance would be appreciated. Thanks.
sudo swupd bundle-remove desktop-autostart
This should sort out the black screen problem with KDE.
Hi Indy, thanks for your reply. Unfortunately I got “Warning: Bundle “desktop-autostart” is not installed, skipping it”. Any other ideas? Thanks.
For some reason, it’s working now, version of CL is 39590 even though the image file was 39500. Maybe has something to do with it.
Great @lead_farmer
On a different note, I am impressed how everything works with Garuda Linux. Mesmerised by the GUI 
If you are distrohopping Ventoy is such a good tool.