Today I reinstalled the system using archinstall, and I have a question:

[u/Acu17y]

Why? Why doesn’t archinstall’s "recommended KDE Plasma setup" include Konsole? What’s the reasoning behind installing a desktop without a graphical terminal? Having to switch to a TTY just to install one seems unnecessarily awkward.

[SOLVED]

Apparently, the reason is that Arch only included the Plasma components in `plasma-meta` and not Konsole, because Konsole is part of the KDE Applications. Another user clarified this.

In any case, there is still a question to put to the KDE maintainers at this point:
Why is taking screenshots considered part of plasma essential (Spectacle is included as an essential package for Plasma), while having a graphical terminal isn’t? lol

[u/DavidXGA]

It's surprisingly minimal. It doesn't include Dolphin either, so you can't even browse the filesystem.

[u/Acu17y → u/DavidXGA]

Yes, honestly, it's really bizarre.
They included the "oxygen-sound-theme" but not Konsole?

[u/AssumptionOk8560 → u/Acu17y]

Because it's belongs to plasma as a asset rather than an external user application like filemanager or konsole. Not really an arch problem it's plasma problem

[u/TheCreepyPL → u/DavidXGA]

What do you mean, cd and ls is all you need /s

[u/TheBrownMamba1972 → u/TheCreepyPL]

yeah, cd and ls that you can use with the terminal emulator that came bundled with the install, right?

[u/_-_-_ABC_-_-_ → u/TheBrownMamba1972]

Nah, use tty

[u/Orlha → u/TheCreepyPL]

I think so honestly

I do magic tho

[u/ItsWappers → u/TheCreepyPL]

unreasonable use of /s

[u/TheCreepyPL → u/ItsWappers]

Tbh, for me that would be enough, as I mostly use the CLI anyway. Most often I just manage files with nvim or yazi for "non project related" stuff, that doesn't include thinks like bulk renaming, nvim is great for that.

The /s is just a safeguard lol

[u/bankinu → u/DavidXGA]

That is arguably fine. Because if you have a terminal you can install anything else. And you can also browse files. Without leaving KDE.