Moving from Gnome to KDE

No, it is a bit more complicated than that, but not too much.

I haven’t tested this but I think it would be something closer to this:

sudo pacman -Syu
sudo pacman -Rcsn gnome gnome-extras
sudo pacman -S networkmanager
sudo pacman -S plasma dolphin konsole
sudo systemctl enable sddm.service --force

I am not sure what the state of your network will be after removing and reinstalling networkmanager. You might have to start/restart the service in there.

Make sure you have a copy of the networkmanager package in your cache. If not, download it before you start.

Also, this is a pretty minimal kde install. You will probably want to add applications to suit your preferences after that.

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