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Subject: Re: Linux Mint may make fewer releases a year
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On 2026-02-17 11:15, Nuno Silva wrote:
> On 2026-02-16, Bobbie Sellers wrote:
> 
>>
>> Actually Plasma 5 was very light but Plasma 6 added back a lot of volume
>> in disk and  memory space. Despite that it contains useful improvements
>> especially to the clipboard.  Sadly KDE has decided to beome dependent
>> on systemd so that it will become much heavier and I will have to give it
>> up as PCLinuxOS is specifically anti-systemd or Poettering's folly as we
>> call it.  I started using KDE about 20 years ago on version 3.57 for
>> Mandriva because it gave me a Desktop Environment on which I could
>> maintain the workflow I had become accustomed to on AmigaOS.
> 
> Not that this says anything about whether it will depend more on systemd
> or not, but some posts I saw on the fediverse suggest that currently
> only their graphical login manager depends/will depend on systemd.
> 
> If the KDE sources are not misleading and really mean it by saying it's
> just the login manager, then the desktop itself ought to be still usable
> without systemd.

Possibly it uses systemd login features to know what user has access to 
resources such as the USB, audio, DVD.... Who has the seat.

...

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Cheers,
        Carlos E.R.
        ES🇪🇸, EU🇪🇺;