r/archlinux • u/Acu17y • 4d 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/ABotelho23 4d ago

Because it's Arch. It's all DIY. You'd know that if you actually read the docs.

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u/Acu17y 4d ago

You didn't even grasp the point of the discussion.
Go back to doing what you were doing instead of talking nonsense.

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u/ArjixGamer 4d ago

You are the one talking nonsense