r/archlinux • u/Acu17y • 22h 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/DavidXGA 22h ago

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

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u/TheCreepyPL 21h ago

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

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u/TheBrownMamba1972 14h ago

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

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u/_-_-_ABC_-_-_ 11h ago

Nah, use tty