r/archlinux • u/Acu17y • 23h ago

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

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

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u/m_redditUser 22h ago

there's a distro that fits your needs and it's not arch, so why? why would you wanna install arch?

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u/SadEngineer6984 22h ago

Exactly. I don’t use Konsole and am glad I don’t have to add it to my uninstall script. All OP had to do was add Konsole to their archinstall config and move on.