diff --git a/blog/posts/2025-08-20-installing-arch.md b/blog/posts/2025-08-20-installing-arch.md index 302157e..f3d10ec 100644 --- a/blog/posts/2025-08-20-installing-arch.md +++ b/blog/posts/2025-08-20-installing-arch.md @@ -64,6 +64,22 @@ - Adding users: - Add the admin user to `%wheel`, edit the sudoers file to reflect that. +## KDE + +(2026-05-01) + +- Easy, just do `pacman -Sy plasma-meta`. + - I choose a meta group b/c I can't imagine a situation in which I want only + part of KDE installed, but I can easily imagine wanting to uninstall all + of it. +- Make sure to disable IWD and enable NetworkManager in systemctl. + - NetworkManager is IWD but for KDE. (There is an IWD backend for + NetworkManager, but I haven't tried it.) +- Enable the display manager via `systemctl enable plasmalogin`. +- Will need to install Konsole probably after first install. Make sure to have + either enabled NetworkManager before installing KDE, or disable IWD after + installing Konsole. + [btrfs-tutorial]: https://ramsdenj.com/posts/2016-04-05-using-btrfs-for-easy-backup-and-rollback/ [pacman-conflicting-files]: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Pacman#%22Failed_to_commit_transaction_(conflicting_files)%22_error [iwd-enable-network-config]: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Iwd#Enable_built-in_network_configuration