@shanmukhateja no, your statement is wrong, bordering indeed on #FUD...

Plasma desktop relying more on systemd feels wrong

#KDE have explicitly blogged about this false information in recent weeks. it is only the new #SDDM replacement, #PlasmaLoginManager, that needs #systemd as a dependency... NO other #Plasma pkgs depend on systemd at all. given that PLM is entirely optional, ie, users can choose not to install it, can keep using SDDM, or other login managers, the statement that was being mentioned online by peeps either from ignorance or malice, is simply incorrect .

@kde

Glad I started looking into my KDE startup time issue. H/t to @20000lbs_of_Cheese and @alci for some hints!

It's looking like there's a ~30 second timeout while *something* waits for fingerprint authentication. Nothing's prompting me for it, and I could have sworn I set this up the same on my work laptop. 🤷

Now I need to dig back into my pam/fprintd config.

#kde #KDEPlasma6 #PlasmaLoginManager #SDDM #fprintd #pam #authentication

Pues ya estamos en plasma 6.6 y con Plasma login manager

Aquí los comandos por si os queréis saltar bichear por la wiki de Arch y de paso decir adios un poco a X11:

systemctl disable sddm
systemctl enable plasmalogin.service

pacman -Rssu sddm sddm-kcm
userdel -r sddm

Nos habremos cargado:
sddm-kcm-6.6.0-1
sddm-0.21.0-6
xorg-xauth-1.1.5-1
xorg-server-21.1.21-1
xf86-input-libinput-1.5.0-1

Enjoy

#Plasma6.6 #PlasmaLoginManager #GoodbyeX11 #plasma_login_manager

@anderslund
sudo pacman -Sy plasma-login-manager systemctl status plasmalogin sudo systemctl disable sddm sudo systemctl enable --now plasmalogin systemctl status plasmalogin
#plasma #plasmaloginmanager

Hey y'all

As #KDEPlasma 6.6 reaches us, I noticed that #PlasmaLoginManager is not forced. So if SDDM is being used it will continue to be the active one.

All this drama surrounding it was for nothing. It's up to you or Distro maintainers to switch to it or not.

#FOSS #Linux #OpenSource

CachyOS January 2026 release fixes the installer and moves to Wayland

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://nerds.xyz/2026/01/cachyos-january-2026-linux/