{"id":213977,"date":"2026-02-16T02:51:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T07:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/16\/a-linux-distro-has-dropped-kde-plasma-after-12-years-as-it-tries-to-escape-systemd\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T04:25:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T09:25:08","slug":"a-linux-distro-has-dropped-kde-plasma-after-12-years-as-it-tries-to-escape-systemd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/16\/a-linux-distro-has-dropped-kde-plasma-after-12-years-as-it-tries-to-escape-systemd\/","title":{"rendered":"A Linux distro has dropped KDE Plasma after 12 years as it tries to escape Systemd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.xda-developers.com\/linux-distro-dropped-kde-plasma-support-tries-to-escape-systemd\/\">A Linux distro has dropped KDE Plasma after 12 years as it tries to escape Systemd<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.xda-developers.com\/linux-distro-dropped-kde-plasma-support-tries-to-escape-systemd\/\">https:\/\/www.xda-developers.com\/linux-distro-dropped-kde-plasma-support-tries-to-escape-systemd\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-16 02:51:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.xda-developers.com\">www.xda-developers.com<\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"title icon i-list\">Summary<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>\n                                        KaOS drops KDE Plasma after 12 years, switching to Niri\/Noctalia as the default DE.\n                        <\/li>\n<li>\n                                        KaOS wants to ditch systemd (Plasma requires it); the team is testing Dinit, but ISO still uses systemd for now.\n                        <\/li>\n<li>\n                                        New defaults include Niri 25.11, Noctalia 4.4, Quickshell 0.2.1, and Limine bootloader; Plasma can be grabbed via repos.\n                        <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Given how it&#8217;s one of my favorite desktop environments, I&#8217;m always happy when I hear that     <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"1026554\">a distro has adopted KDE Plasma as its default layout<\/span>. However, I&#8217;ve never seen a dev team go the opposite way until today. As good as I think KDE Plasma is, some teams just don&#8217;t want to jump through the hoops that it demands, as proven by one OS that used KDE Plasma for years will now use a different desktop environment.    <\/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 switched from GNOME to KDE Plasma and found the one thing I can&#8217;t live without<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p class=\"display-card-excerpt\">And it has nothing to do with the taskbar<\/p>\n<p>   &#8230;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.xda-developers.com\/linux-distro-dropped-kde-plasma-support-tries-to-escape-systemd\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Linux distro has dropped KDE Plasma after 12 years as it tries to escape&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":213978,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static0.xdaimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/kaos-niri.jpg?w=1600&h=900&fit=crop","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[71],"class_list":["post-213977","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\/213977"}],"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=213977"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":213979,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213977\/revisions\/213979"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}