Subj : Re: Linux Mint 20.1 issue
To   : Aaron Thomas
From : Richard Falken
Date : Tue Feb 09 2021 12:11 pm

  Re: Re: Linux Mint 20.1 issue
  By: Aaron Thomas to Joe Phigan on Tue Feb 09 2021 09:10 am

 >  JP>  AT> Anyone else have a suggestion for him? He upgraded Mint and it's no
 > 
 >  JP> As of 20.04, Kubuntu uses the Plasma Desktop instead of KDE. It's pretty nice.
 > 
 > Aren't Plasma & KDE the same thing?
 > 
 > I installed Ubuntu with KDE and then everything is referred to as "Plasma."
 > 
 > But yea, it sure is nice! Everything is easy to customize too.

There is some confussion because of one of those silly decisions regarding corporate branding.

As of today, KDE is the name of the organization that develops the software. Plasma is the name of the desktop.


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