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    This is the guide that I followed with setting up KDE Plasma on Linux. This guide shows how to install Arch manually and then goes from there to install KDE. One of the options with Arch after you boot up from a live usb is to use archinstall and that will have all your options that you can choose in a nice setup menu. You are able to choose KDE Plasma as one of the desktops to install from that setup. So you could skip the first part of the guide and then pick and choose which software and changes you would like to make from there following the guide.

    https://github.com/XxAcielxX/arch-plasma-install

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    This is the guide that I followed with setting up KDE Plasma on Linux. This guide shows how to install Arch manually and then goes from there to install KDE. One of the options with Arch after you boot up from a live usb is to use archinstall and that will have all your options that you can choose in a nice setup menu. You are able to choose KDE Plasma as one of the desktops to install from that setup. So you could skip the first part of the guide and then pick and choose which software and changes you would like to make from there following the guide.

    https://github.com/XxAcielxX/arch-plasma-install

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    @Madchatthew Very useful. Thanks

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    @Madchatthew Very useful. Thanks

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    @phenomlab you are very welcome. I have bookmarks but it is also nice to have this info out there for other people to use as well, and also a place I can go to grab it again if I lose my bookmarks haha

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