KDE Says Plasma Desktop Will Never Force Users to Use systemd

Posted by hanuca on Feb 23, 2026 3:04 AM EDT
9to5linux.com; By Marcus Nestor
Mail this story
Print this story

The KDE project is addressing recent concerns that they are forcing systemd on current or future versions of its Plasma desktop environment.

This comes after the developers of the KaOS Linux independent distro announced that they decided to replace the KDE Plasma desktop environment with a Niri/Noctalia setup to move away from systemd, saying that “Plasma pretty much demands systemd, and will be fully mandatory soon.“

Full Story

  Nav
» Read more about: Story Type: News Story; Groups: KDE, Linux

« Return to the newswire homepage

Subject Topic Starter Replies Views Last Post
Why KDE is so much concerned to stay independent of Systemd dba477 0 27 Feb 23, 2026 4:49 AM

You cannot post until you login.