From: nunojsilva@invalid.invalid   
      
   On 2026-02-17, Nuno Silva wrote:   
      
   > On 2026-02-16, Bobbie Sellers wrote:   
   >>   
   >> Actually Plasma 5 was very light but Plasma 6 added back a lot of volume   
   >> in disk and  memory space. Despite that it contains useful improvements   
   >> especially to the clipboard.  Sadly KDE has decided to beome dependent   
   >> on systemd so that it will become much heavier and I will have to give it   
   >> up as PCLinuxOS is specifically anti-systemd or Poettering's folly as we   
   >> call it.  I started using KDE about 20 years ago on version 3.57 for   
   >> Mandriva because it gave me a Desktop Environment on which I could   
   >> maintain the workflow I had become accustomed to on AmigaOS.   
   >   
   > Not that this says anything about whether it will depend more on systemd   
   > or not, but some posts I saw on the fediverse suggest that currently   
   > only their graphical login manager depends/will depend on systemd.   
   >   
   > If the KDE sources are not misleading and really mean it by saying it's   
   > just the login manager, then the desktop itself ought to be still usable   
   > without systemd.   
      
   (Ok, now I've reached your post below, saying basically the same :-) :)   
      
   On 2026-02-17, Bobbie Sellers wrote:   
      
   > On 2/16/26 17:50, rbowman wrote:   
   >> https://www.xda-developers.com/linux-distro-dropped-kde-plasma-support-   
   >> tries-to-escape-systemd/   
   [...]   
   > 	Well we suffer from bad reporting and KDE denies it intends to force   
   > systemd on anyone.   
   > 	I think people talked about it online in one place and another.   
      
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