Tutorial how to Install Latest KDE Plasma in Ubuntu and Linux Mint . KDE is desktop environment for Linux.KDE Plasma is available for all major linux distro.

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1. To add the PPA, open terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) and run the following command:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:kubuntu-ppa/backports

After adding PPA, run the following commands to update your existing package database.

Note: If you already have Plasma installed, these commands will also upgrade it to a latest available version.

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

2.Now install KDE Plasma using following one single command in your system.

sudo apt-get install kubuntu-desktop

Please note during installation, it will ask you to configure sddm login manager, click OK and select the ‘lightdm’ login manager as default.

Once the installation process is completed, make sure to restart your system and select Plasma Desktop and enter password to login into KDE Plasma 5.8.5 desktop environment.

KDE is a well-known desktop environment for the Unix-Like systems designed for users who wants to have a nice desktop environment for their machines, It is one of the most used desktop interfaces out there.

In the past few years, a lot of work has been geared towards improving KDE desktop, with the latest stable release KDE Plasma 5 desktop series coming with some amazing features and bringing many improvements to the original task manager, KRunner, including Wayland support which came around in Plasma 5 and activities as well, plus a more refined look and feel.

KDE Plasma 5 Features

There is a lot of new features in KDE Plasma 5, here’s a list of the most important new features.

- KDE 5 applications were rewritten using Qt 5; the next generation of the famous Qt library to design graphical interfaces, that means that KDE 5 apps will be faster than KDE 4 beside a better usage of GPU from KDE 5 applications.

-Completely new look for KDE 5 Plasma, with the new slicker plasma theme, KDE 5 Plasma is much more beautiful than KDE 4.x with the new flat design, beside the nice look, the “slicker” theme is lighter than the default theme for KDE.

-The Start menu for KDE 5 Plasma has been redesigned and notifications area has also been redesigned, less popup windows providing a better user experience to access the notifications.

-The lockscreen window is also redesigned with a better login interface.

-Smoother performance, KDE 5 Plasma applications are rendered up on the top of the OpenGL scenegraph which means that KDE 5 programs has the priority when being rendered beside other process.

-Hardware-acceleration migration is now complete, this means that Plasma 5 rendering will be faster now because of the fully-usage for the GPU.

-A nice set of new wallpapers, will look perfectly on the default theme.

Many other features which you will explore by your own.

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