{"id":248720,"date":"2026-05-18T15:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T19:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/18\/kde-plasma-is-the-linux-desktop-i-recommend-to-windows-users-but-only-after-these-tweaks\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T15:40:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T19:40:14","slug":"kde-plasma-is-the-linux-desktop-i-recommend-to-windows-users-but-only-after-these-tweaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/18\/kde-plasma-is-the-linux-desktop-i-recommend-to-windows-users-but-only-after-these-tweaks\/","title":{"rendered":"KDE Plasma is the Linux desktop I recommend to Windows users, but only after these tweaks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/kde-plasma-is-linux-desktop-recommend-to-windows-users-after-tweaks\/\">KDE Plasma is the Linux desktop I recommend to Windows users, but only after these tweaks<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/kde-plasma-is-linux-desktop-recommend-to-windows-users-after-tweaks\/\">https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/kde-plasma-is-linux-desktop-recommend-to-windows-users-after-tweaks\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-18 15:30:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.makeuseof.com\">www.makeuseof.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>KDE Plasma is already pretty much the perfect desktop environment for those switching from Windows 10 or 11, but a few tweaks make everything run much more smoothly.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"box-sizing:border-box; margin:0px; padding:0px\">It does, in a way, feel liberating when moving over from the Copilot-infested waters of Windows 11, and there is much to be said about KDE\u2019s extensive configurations, themes, and overall snappiness.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s still a lot that can be done, though \u2014 and I\u2019ll be going over a few recommended settings and tweaks that can make you a power user in a matter of minutes.<\/p>\n<p>                    <span data-field=\"label\" class=\"article-card-label\">Related<\/span><\/p>\n<h5 class=\"display-card-title \">\n<p>\t\t\tKDE makes some of the best free Windows apps nobody talks about<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p class=\"display-card-excerpt\">KDE&#8217;s free Windows apps are criminally underrated.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"kde-works-pretty-well-out-of-the-box\">\n                        KDE works pretty well out of the box<br \/>\n               <\/h2>\n<h3 id=\"bringing-cohesiveness-with-a-few-simple-tweaks\">\n            Bringing cohesiveness with a few simple tweaks<br \/>\n    <\/h3>\n<p>KDE Plasma already behaves like Windows 11 out of the box, and there\u2019s not a whole lot of dependencies to install. Windows 11 users should feel right&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/kde-plasma-is-linux-desktop-recommend-to-windows-users-after-tweaks\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KDE Plasma is the Linux desktop I recommend to Windows users, but only after these&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":248721,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static0.makeuseofimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/wm\/2026\/05\/kde-plasma-live.jpg?w=1600&h=900&fit=crop","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[71],"class_list":["post-248720","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\/248720"}],"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=248720"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":248723,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248720\/revisions\/248723"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}