{"id":207034,"date":"2026-01-27T11:15:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T16:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/27\/3-reasons-kde-plasma-is-still-my-go-to-linux-desktop\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T11:30:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T16:30:11","slug":"3-reasons-kde-plasma-is-still-my-go-to-linux-desktop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/27\/3-reasons-kde-plasma-is-still-my-go-to-linux-desktop\/","title":{"rendered":"3 reasons KDE Plasma is still my go-to Linux desktop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/reasons-kde-plasma-is-still-my-go-to-linux-desktop\/\">3 reasons KDE Plasma is still my go-to Linux desktop<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/reasons-kde-plasma-is-still-my-go-to-linux-desktop\/\">https:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/reasons-kde-plasma-is-still-my-go-to-linux-desktop\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-01-27 11:15:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.howtogeek.com\">www.howtogeek.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you read our Linux newsletter, you know that I&#8217;ve tried several desktop environments over the years. I&#8217;m yet to find one I like better than KDE Plasma, though, and these are the reasons why.<\/p>\n<p>In case you aren&#8217;t familiar, KDE Plasma is a desktop environment you can use when you install a Linux or FreeBSD computer. A desktop environment is made up of all the interface elements you interact with. Think Windows&#8217; famous task bar and start menu. Like in the case of Plasma, it can also involve various frameworks and function-extending software that improve your PC experience.<\/p>\n<p>                    <span data-field=\"label\" class=\"article-card-label\">Related<\/span><\/p>\n<h5 class=\"display-card-title \">\n<p>\t\t\tI Tested 10 Popular Linux Desktop Environments, Here&#8217;s How I Rank Them<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p class=\"display-card-excerpt\">I looked at everything from power user to lightweight desktops.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"plasma-has-all-the-power-toys-built-in\">\n                        Plasma has all the power toys built-in<br \/>\n               <\/h2>\n<p>KDE Plasma has a ton of features built-in and available for use by default in most of the distributions that carry it. Many of these same features are supported on other desktop environments in the form of third-party projects and extensions that, annoyingly, I have to find and install&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/reasons-kde-plasma-is-still-my-go-to-linux-desktop\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>3 reasons KDE Plasma is still my go-to Linux desktop https:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/reasons-kde-plasma-is-still-my-go-to-linux-desktop\/ Publish Date: 2026-01-27 11:15:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":207035,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static0.howtogeekimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/wm\/2025\/09\/img_20250921_205649_919.jpg?w=1600&h=900&fit=crop","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[71],"class_list":["post-207034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-linux","tag-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207034"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207034"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":207036,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207034\/revisions\/207036"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}